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Wayne Koestenbaum
With an unusual, disarming blend of autobiography and cultural commentary, noted poet and critic Koestenbaum takes us through a spectrum of mortifying circumstances–in history, literature, art, current events, music, film…
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Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum
A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.
A book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two…
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Urbane, ribald, melancholic and wry, Koestenbaum puts a memorable spin on the status quo notion of domestic arrangements.
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Star-haunted new poems mince memory and culture into tidbits to propose a new nude poetics: scapegoated Adonises in aphoristic pillboxes.
Part two of an autobiographical trance trilogy: intimate experiments in queer documentary and improvisatory poetics
According to The New York Times, It would be easy to read Kurt Kauper’s nude portraits of the former hockey players Bobby Orr and Derek Sanderson as a rote comment…
Wayne Koestenbaum’s first book of short fiction: a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables. –Provided by publisher.
*Audience: readers of autobiography, memoir, autofiction, autotheory, sex-gender adventurers, readers of Queer literature and theory, and color & design aficianadose.
*Author is an acclaimed poet, critic, novelist, artist and performer…
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In this book, self-proclaimed opera queen Wayne Koestenbaun investigates the hidden - and unexpected - mysteries that opera and sexuality produce. At once a personal meditation and an iconoclastic survey…
This interpretation of literary collaboration, first published in 1989, focuses on homosexual desire: men write together in order either to express or to evade homosexual feelings. The texts it explores…
A brilliant, irreverent, penetrating and wholly original deconstruction of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, American icon. In an eclectic gallery of fantasies and tableaus, Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late First Lady’s…
Unique, bizarre, and often controversial, Andy Warhol in life and in death bridged the gap between high art and the ordinary, creating works that explored almost every artistic genre. This…
‘An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have’ Andy Warhol The extraordinary life of one of the greatest cultural icons of the twentieth century.
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Offers a detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx’s physical movements as captured on screen. This title guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers films, from The Cocoanuts in 1929 to…
A new book of essays by the cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, author of The Queen’s Throat and Jackie Under My Skin –
A new collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, from the…
Wild new adventures in word-infatuated fl nerie from a celebrated literary provocateur.
This book of thirty-six poetic bulletins…
Nat Ward
Nat Ward's DITCH: MONTAUK, NY 11954-a bustling photographic excursion to Montauk's most famous beach-brings to light the never-before-seen high/low culture on a beach known for being a low-key celebrity/local hangout…
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The collection’s cornerstones are two rhapsodies - long poems which combine the richness of a novel, the intimacy of a lyric, and the immediacy of a performance. At the climax…
More meditative, more provocative than his previous, much-praised work, The Milk of Inquiry is Koestenbaum’s strongest collection to date. Its most ambitious gesture is a long poem, Metamorphoses (Masked Ball)…
Alice Neel, Hilton Als
Alice Neel's unstinting, visionary engagement with the lives of those around her resulted in an inclusive oeuvre. This aspect of queer representation in her work is explored for the first…
Lynne Tillman
Horace, a gay American crime writer, goes on the trail of an American woman who has vanished without trace on the ancient island of Crete. The case seems straightforward, but…
In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to indicate how consciousness follows from the primary activity of making. Against this, a certain…
Wayne Koestenbaum,Rachel Kushner
A new edition of a dazzlingly seductive fever dream written in brilliant poetic vernacular (Bookforum) by a beloved poet and cultural critic, now with an introduction by Rachel Kushner.;;For five…
The images in Bill Jacobson’s when is a place suggest risks and uncertainties. They question both the nature of perception and our existential place in the world, themes explored throughout…
The first ever overview of Pfeiffer's lively artistic output across mediums from the 1960s to the present, from A to Z
Inspired by the illustrated alphabets found in abecedariums, this…
Alain Guiraudie
A novel that is a meditation on friendship, love, obsession, power, and abuse, by turns hyperrealist and phantasmagoric, recalling the work of Sade and Bataille.
Published in 2014 by Gregory R. Miller & Co. in association with the Rose Art Museum on the occasion of the exhibition Mika Rottenberg: Bowls Balls Souls Holes (February 14-June…
The first monograph on the heterogeneous postmodernist painting of David Humphrey, blending figuration and abstraction, pop and expressionism
The acclaimed American painter David Humphrey (born 1955) has been exhibiting his…
Professor Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris)
Originally published in French: France: Editions du Seuil, 1977; English translation originally published in the USA: Hill and Wang, 1978.
A 10-year survey of the bright, graffiti-inspired abstractions of Keltie Ferris
This long-awaited publication is the first major monograph and career retrospective for the celebrated Kentucky-born, Brooklyn-based painter Keltie Ferris…
Wayne Kostenbaum
In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled Legend, the column had a highly…
The first ever overview of Pfeiffer’s lively artistic output across mediums from the 1960s to the present, from A to Z
This publication presents four psychologically complex paintings by acclaimed New York-based artist Mark Greenwold (born 1942), alongside a selection of preparatory drawings. His laborious process involves thousands of miniscule brush…
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533-92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live…
A beautifully produced celebration of Leo Amino’s sculptural adventures in light and color, richly complicating the story of abstraction in America
The first catalog on the Japanese American artist Leo…
Patrick Madden,Michel Montaigne
The evolution of Alex Katz: nearly 80 years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works on paper and sculpture
Across decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz…
Kenneth Goldsmith,Wayne Kostenbaum,Reva Wolf
The first ever collection of the Andy Warhol interviews-a fascinating selection of the Pop Art pioneer’s utterances on everything from the art of fame to dinner with William Burroughs to…
A critically acclaimed encounter between two American masters of threshold perception and color nuance
This book brings together the work of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt (1913-67) and key figure of…
Co-published by Tenement Press and Prototype, Seven Rooms brings together highlights from the archive of Hotel, a magazine for new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since its inception…
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A collection of addictively readable daybook poems from a leading cultural critic and poet
