What Wayne Koestenbaum Learned From <em>Gilligan’s Island</em> (And Why He Will Never Finish Reading Marx’s <em>Capital</em>)

What Wayne Koestenbaum Learned From Gilligan’s Island (And Why He Will Never Finish Reading Marx’s Capital)

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Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

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