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What Wayne Koestenbaum Learned From
Gilligan’s Island
(And Why He Will Never Finish Reading Marx’s
Capital
)
The Author of
My Lover, the Rabbi
Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
By
Wayne Koestenbaum
| March 17, 2026
Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns
Some Advice for the Graduating Class of Bennington College
(and the Rest of Us)
By
Wayne Koestenbaum
| August 26, 2021
Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells
(And, Also, How Montaigne's Ideas Have Left Their Mark)
By
Wayne Koestenbaum
| May 13, 2020
TRANCE NOTEBOOK #21[surreptitious nookie with a large astronaut]
Literary Hub Poem of the Week
By
Wayne Koestenbaum
| October 14, 2015
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