Not to be an opera geek but I must tell you in all confidence that I flip out with unclassifiable and probably non-teleological ecstasy during the tenor arias in Andrea Chénier
Micaela Baranello@micaelab.bsky.social · 4mo agoSorry but Andrea Chénier always makes me wish I was watching a really loud Tosca instead
I wear turtlenecks and I wear necklaces, and I’m often puzzled by how to bring together (without unintentional comedy) my discordant loves.
tooknap press@tooknappress.bsky.social · 4mo agoChunky beads for maximum neck interest
proving that it is possible and desirable to wear a necklace with a turtleneck
this daffodil is not dejected, it is merely overwhelmed by its multiplicity of veils—
my backyard conservatory, a school training the next generation of lyric sopranos
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Wayne Koestenbaum Discusses My Lover, the Rabbi with Matthew Sharpe | Brooklyn Public Library
It’s been almost two decades since celebrated, boundary-pushing writer Wayne Koestenbaum published a novel. He’s back with My Lover, the Rabbi, a book only Koestenbaum could write: hilarious, queer, o...
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This Saturday, April 25th, @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social & DOUGLAS KEARNEY will read at 5 PM sharp (doors at 4:30 PM) at Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York City. 🌞 Fence Books celebrates its 25th anniversary; make a one-time donation at fenceportal.org/support to support our efforts. 💌
This week our podcast features @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social in conversation with @tausifnoor.bsky.social! Don't miss it! Up now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Soundcloud! soundcloud.com/livefromcity... open.spotify.com/episode/2O9c... MY LOVER, THE RABBI: A Novel @fsgbooks.bsky.social
A beautiful review of my new novel: thank you to the great Neil Bartlett. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum review – as fierce and strange as anything you’ll read this year
With echoes of Balzac and Proust, this tale of obsessive love evokes the dangers and delights of forbidden desire
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(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
The youngest member of Congress doesn't seem to have trouble responding to this in a normal human way. Not sure why it's so hard for representatives with decades more experience
Maxwell Frost@maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
Tonight! Zoom! City Lights! Conversation with Tausif Noor! Topic: “My Lover, the Rabbi”! citylights.com/events/wayne... @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social @tausifnoor.bsky.social
I’m delighted to be appearing with the brilliant Tausif Noor in a City Lights online event to discuss my new novel, “My Lover, the Rabbi,” on Wednesday, April 1, 6pm PT / 9pm EST. Maximum conversational voltage guaranteed! Register here: citylights.com/events/wayne...
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#nokings in Hudson chanting with the best of them in harmony or out of tune, the tune is not the point, the words are
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**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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And I’ll add that I have never read anything like @dfelsenthal.bsky.social review/essay/sonorous exegesis of @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social ’s fat and hairy new book. Can’t wait to dive in.
Daniel Felsenthal@dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 6mo agoThrilled to write about @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social and his new novel, an immersion in gay sex, erotic yearning and religious self-knowledge unlike any I've ever read. Glad @nymag.com and @vulture.com let me wax rhapsodic on this one. www.vulture.com/article/wayn...
Here is Daniel Felsenthal's brilliant and generous review of my new novel, "My Lover, the Rabbi." I can't imagine a more gratifying and gleaming analysis.
Daniel Felsenthal@dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 6mo agoThrilled to write about @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social and his new novel, an immersion in gay sex, erotic yearning and religious self-knowledge unlike any I've ever read. Glad @nymag.com and @vulture.com let me wax rhapsodic on this one. www.vulture.com/article/wayn...
"treating language as a whisk to beat the unseparated yolks and albumen of the congregation's dreaming mind" One of many sumptuous phrases from @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social's new novel
@waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social, author of My Lover, the Rabbi, explains why Gilligan’s Island taught him “how to be bumbling and small while receiving the protection of an older, bigger man.”
What Wayne Koestenbaum Learned From Gilligan’s Island (And Why He Will Never Finish Reading Marx’s Capital)
Wayne Koestenbaum’s new novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, is out now from FSG, so we asked him a few questions about writing, reading, and whatever else was on his mind. As ever, Koestenbaum did not disa…
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“The stories he told himself about his own perilous and erratic progress through the world would be reshaped to place this anal ailment at the summit of his pilgrimage.” From the novel My Lover, the Rabbi, by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social.
Rabbi Hole, by Wayne Koestenbaum
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“The anal specialist—‘my butt doctor,’ the rabbi proudly called him—did not forbid anal intercourse.” From the novel My Lover, the Rabbi, by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social.
Rabbi Hole, by Wayne Koestenbaum
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"To the rabbi I’d promised a loyalty so primal and regressive it almost qualified as a throwback to a totalitarian, fascistic style of erotic attachment." Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...
My Lover, the Rabbi
“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”
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"It wasn’t the rabbi’s cock I wanted in my face, it was the sense of annihilation and relief that rushed over me when his cock finally arrived to smother and obliterate my restlessness and ambivalence." Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...
My Lover, the Rabbi
“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”
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“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.” Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...
My Lover, the Rabbi
“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”
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From my past, this stirring and enigmatic phrase, Emerson’s, returns to me, like a keepsake I’d misplaced, and I am roused almost to action by the forgotten question’s reappearance: “Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to nature?”
U.S., horror-catalyst, ungoverned land in which I live and sometimes thrive — paradox of dwelling inside this mallet striking and destroying— self-disgust at dwelling inside the unlawful arm reaching without pity or deliberation into other people’s schools and sanctuaries—
