Artforum, April 1st, 2003
The 1993 appearance of WAYNE KOESTENBAUM's third book, The Queen's Throat, confirmed the author's singular presence on the literary landscape-and it signaled a fresh turn in American criticism. Forecasting an appetite for "mythologies" as divergent as Jackie O and Andy W, his ecstatic meditation on opera, homosexuality, and desire revitalized cultural studies just as they threatened to succumb to discipilsiary dreariness. For this issue, Koestenbaum revisits his own literary coming of age in the 1980s.
I met Tama Janowitz once in the 1980s. (Was it 1987?) She probably doesn't remember our enc...
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