Wayne Koestenbaum

‘Properly analytical ... always entertaining’ TIME OUT ‘Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo’ L A TIMES Painter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, all-round celebrity, Andy Warhol is an outstanding cultural icon. He revolutionised art by bringing to it images from popular culture—such...

To the untrained eye, the rabbi is far from desirable. He is lofty and disorderly, he is aging and constantly losing members of his flock. But, to one man, he is the object of obsession. When they're together, the two men torment, pleasure and manipulate one another. When they're apart, our narrator manically contemplates every element of the rabbi's being:...

"An unbeatable stylist with a track record of dilating small moments of observation into wide swaths of philosophy and psychology... a proud belletrist, Koestenbaum shakes against narrative like a vibrator that switches on in its plastic packaging." --Daniel Felsenthal, Vulture Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture, Electric Literature, Our Culture, and Lit Hub A psychosexual relationship between a rabbi...