Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum has published eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). He has had solo exhibitions of his paintings at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (L.A.), and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and French at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. His experiments with the musical lecture format have included performances at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, REDCAT, The Kitchen, Walker Art Center, and the Centre Pompidou.