656. Wayne Koestenbaum

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Wayne Koestenbaum is the guest. His new essay collection, Figure It Out, is available from Soft Skull Press. Koestenbaum has published nineteen books, including Camp Marmalade, Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, and Jackie Under My Skin. His essays and poems have been widely published in periodicals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry, The Best American Essays, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, London Review of Books, The Believer, The Iowa Review, Cabinet, and Artforum. Formerly an Associate Professor of English at Yale and a Visiting Professor in the Yale School of Art’s painting department, he is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.2	That's campfirepoetry.com. Hello, everybody doing. Welcome to the other people show. I'm Brad Listy. How's it going? How's it going? What's happening? I'm in Los Angeles. I have Wayne Kustenbaum on the program today.
1:11.6	He has a new essay collection out from Soft Skull Press. It's called Figure It Out.
1:18.3	And I have been meaning to have Wayne Kustenbaum on this program for a long time.
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2:04.2	All right. Happy Sunday, everybody. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Wayne Kustenbaum.
2:10.7	His new essay collection is called Figure It Out. It's available now from Soft Skull Press.
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