Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum (* 1958 ) is an American author .

Life

Koestenbaum studied English at Harvard University , Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University . He is a professor at the City University of New York . Koestenbaum wrote several biographies and wrote lyrical works, novels and an opera libretto.

Works (selection)

Poetry

• Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems ( Persea , 1990)
• Rhapsodies of A Repeat Offender (Persea, 1994)
• The Milk of Inquiry (Persea, 1999)
• Model Homes (BOA Editions, 2004)
• Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films (Turtle Point Press, 2006)
• Blue Stranger With Mosaic Background (Turle Point, 2012)

Fiction prose

• Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (Soft Skull, 2004).
• Hotel Theory (Soft Skull Press, 2007).
• Humiliation ( Picador , 2011).

Opera libretto

• Jackie O , music by Michael Daugherty , 1997

Biographies

• Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration ( Routledge , 1989)
• The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire (Poseidon, 1993)
• Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting An Icon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995)
• Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics (Ballantine Books, 2000)
• Andy Warhol (Lipper / Viking, 2001)
• The Anatomy of Harpo Marx ( University of California Press , 2012)

Web links

• Salon: The many faces of “Humiliation”, July 31, 2011
• Literature by and about Wayne Koestenbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Wayne Koestenbaum in the bibliographic database WorldCat