Wayne Koestenbaum Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Wayne Koestenbaum

@aliner I’m reading Stephen Walsh’s biography of Debussy.

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Tonight, Tuesday, March 15th, at 7pm ET, I will be talking with the brilliant Mónica de la Torre about my new book, “Ultramarine.” Stream our conversation here, from @192books and Paula Cooper Gallery: http://www.192books.com/2785-2/

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The first book ever chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club was Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Lolly Willowes.”

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Cruising, juxtaposition, almonds, enjambment: here, in "The Brooklyn Rail," I talk with the generously perceptive Tony Leuzzi about my trance trilogy and its final volume, "Ultramarine." @nightboat https://brooklynrail.org/2022/02/books/Wayne-Koestenbaum-with-Tony-Leuzzi

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On Thursday, Feb. 24th, 6pm (EST), I will be reading online from my new book, Ultramarine, with Angelo Nikolopoulos, who will be reading from his new book, Pleasure. Register here for the Zoom: https://t.co/OEk5pELKtT @nightboatbooks

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savoring the terse smart surreal documentary candor of Dodie Bellamy’s new book “Bee Reaved” as the long year ends — the clear aim of her essay-eye, zeroing in on impossibilities @SemiotextePress

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the verbal and visual energy I felt today at the New York Art Book Fair was the most exciting and frenzy-inducing experience of human contact I’ve had since March 2020

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I read fiction too infrequently. When I find a new novel to love, I remember what originally drew me to literature — the thrill of seeing constrained lives made luminous by empathy. Today’s happy discovery is Sigrid Nunez, “What Are You Going Through.”

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a paradox: fiction that depicts the state of not thinking, not feeling: blankness, stupor, hiatus: like this sentence from Willa Cather’s first novel: “He thought of nothing at all.”

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Here are four surreptitiously ekphrastic fables I wrote in 2016, inspired by Jimmy DeSana's photographs. (These stories later reappeared in my book "The Cheerful Scapegoat.") https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tipping-over-into-reverie-jimmy-desana-wayne-koestenbaum via @PioneerWorks_

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