Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Not 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 180
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I wear turtlenecks and I wear necklaces, and I’m often puzzled by how to bring together (without unintentional comedy) my discordant loves. 150
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026proving that it is possible and desirable to wear a necklace with a turtleneck 1200
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026this daffodil is not dejected, it is merely overwhelmed by its multiplicity of veils— 0102
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026my backyard conservatory, a school training the next generation of lyric sopranos 081
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 07/05/2026misread Saint Sebastian as Susan Sarandon 1101
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/way...bklynlibrary.orgWayne Koestenbaum Discusses My Lover, the Rabbi with Matthew Sharpe | Brooklyn Public LibraryIt’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... 071
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumFence Magazine & Books @fencebooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026This 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. 💌 011
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumCity Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This 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 011
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A beautiful review of my new novel: thank you to the great Neil Bartlett. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...theguardian.comMy Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum review – as fierce and strange as anything you’ll read this yearWith echoes of Balzac and Proust, this tale of obsessive love evokes the dangers and delights of forbidden desire 0132
Reposted by Wayne Koestenbaum Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office 011
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The 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. 903186465419
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumAmanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The 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 617421
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Tonight! 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 080
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I’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...citylights.com 050
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026#nokings in Hudson gloves and hat the essential accents to demonstrate spirit’s survival 0131
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026#nokings in Hudson chanting with the best of them in harmony or out of tune, the tune is not the point, the words are 0101
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026#nokings in Hudson, NY always in search of signs 1302
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Hudson Rally & March” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...mobilize.usNO KINGS Hudson Rally & March · No Kings**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... 050
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumJeffWeinstein (he/him) @jiweinste.bsky.social · 26/03/2026And 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. 142
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Here 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. 1172
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumReuben Gelley Newman @joustingsnail.bsky.social · 21/03/2026"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 293
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 17/03/2026@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.”buff.lyWhat 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… 093
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumHarper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 12/03/2026“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.buff.lyRabbi Hole, by Wayne KoestenbaumWe've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure 021
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumHarper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026“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.buff.lyRabbi Hole, by Wayne KoestenbaumWe've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure 002
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumJewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 04/03/2026"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...jewishcurrents.orgMy Lover, the Rabbi“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.” 042
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumJewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 03/03/2026"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...jewishcurrents.orgMy Lover, the Rabbi“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.” 021
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumJewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 03/03/2026“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.” Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...jewishcurrents.orgMy Lover, the Rabbi“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.” 021
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 02/03/2026From 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?” 0110
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026U.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— 061
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026New York City launch for my new novel! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/wayne-...mcnallyjackson.comWayne Koestenbaum & Morgan BassichisChoose an RSVP Option: I'd just like a seat, please - $5 I'd like the book and a seat - $19 082
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 26/02/2026www.culturedmag.com/article/2026...culturedmag.comIn Wayne Koestenbaum’s First Novel in Two Decades, Gay Lust Incarnate Is a Rabbi With a Dad BodMy Lover, the Rabbi, out March 17, follows an unnamed protagonist's agonizing infatuation with an aging religious leader. 0161
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Two sentences from my forthcoming novel. @fsgbooks.bsky.social 191
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 21/02/2026An excerpt from my forthcoming novel, “My Lover, the Rabbi,” to be published by FSG in March 2026. harpers.org/archive/2026...harpers.orgRabbi Hole, by Wayne Koestenbaum 090
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 14/02/2026in an undoctored photo, I’m waving hello or goodbye to you 0150
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 14/02/2026this morning: looking out my dirty, south-facing window, through a scrim of succulents: 060
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026They want to pollute the globe because they are the very incarnation of pollution.. They understand only pollution. It’s their lingua franca, their touchstone, their method, their core. 020
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026“A two-grappa boy goodbye / I insist on an ocean” — alert, terse, erotized poesy by Ryan Skrabalak, published by speCt! books in Oakland, 2024 040
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I’m back. Not dead. Still sane. Still skeptical. 0140
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Good people are arising like unbidden annunciating angels to counter these eruptions of unleashed state-sponsored violence. 0141
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026fantasy: tomorrow morning the 25th Amendment will arise from its long sleep and kick ass 2270
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumThe Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Join us for a performance lecture by poet, artist, and CUNY Graduate Center alum Ronaldo V. Wilson embodying form and place through language, dance, song, and video. Introduced by poet and artist @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social 065
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Double-exposure studio self-portrait, 35mm Kodak T-MAX P3200 film 0151
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 25/10/2025“I would wish that only women could vote.” —Hannah Weiner 070
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Tonight, Friday, Oct. 10, in Brooklyn, from 6-9pm, I debut 22 new cyanotype assemblages in a solo show at “B” Dry Goods, 679 Franklin Ave. Shown here: Marlene Dietrich’s Seconals. 080
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2025“Someday, / someone will stand before you, and you’ll / realize / time is just a trick by which the sun renews / its vow to the flowers.” —Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social 1163
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Now I’m getting ads for Snapple on Instagram. I’ll never buy Snapple. I’ve never bought Snapple. Doesn’t the algorithm know that I’m not susceptible to Snapple? Why bother trying to recruit me to become a Snapple devotee? Observe how degraded and coarse the strategies of capital have become. 0241
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 08/09/2025“Thought does not progress in a single direction; instead, the moments are interwoven as in a carpet. The fruitfulness of the thoughts depends on the density of the texture.” —Theodor W. Adorno 0213
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025“It is sometimes possible to put the fallen petal back / on the flower.” —Alice Notley 1387
Reposted by Wayne KoestenbaumMolly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025New order — Farbiarz orders Khalil’s release for 6:30 pm CT. He must surrender his passport, and the gov has to give him a copy of it and his green card. 113027
