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There's No Place Like Home—Except the Beach: Visual Stories of Montauk, New York

There's No Place Like Home—Except the Beach: Visual Stories of Montauk, New York

Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt: "The beach is the divide between one world, the dry, and another, the wet. It is a mythical place of transformation."

By Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt | May 22, 2025

How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

How Opera Invented the Modern Fan

Alison Kinney Investigates the Barriers to Appreciating Art the “Right” Way

By Alison Kinney | October 14, 2021

Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

(and the Rest of Us)">Some Advice for the Graduating Class of Bennington College
(and the Rest of Us)

By Wayne Koestenbaum | August 26, 2021

17 new books to read outside in the sunshine.

17 new books to read outside in the sunshine.

By Katie Yee | March 23, 2021

Wayne Koestenbaum on His Quarantine-Induced Need to Read Poetry

Wayne Koestenbaum on His Quarantine-Induced Need to Read Poetry

The Quarantine Tapes">In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on
The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | March 2, 2021

Wayne Koestenbaum: If I'm Excited I'll Say Things That Are More Valuable

Wayne Koestenbaum: If I'm Excited I'll Say Things That Are More Valuable

Otherppl">In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 13, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Wayne Koestenbaum Considers Incense, Irish Spring, and, Yes, Some Other Smells

By Wayne Koestenbaum | May 13, 2020

20 new books publishing today, day 723 at home.

By Katie Yee | May 5, 2020

The Joys and Worries of 20 Writers During COVID-19

By Christopher Soto | April 30, 2020

Wayne Koestenbaum on Sontag, Proust, and Quote-o-Mania

Wayne Koestenbaum on Sontag, Proust, and Quote-o-Mania

In Conversation with Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | March 1, 2018

90 Lines For John Ashbery's 90th Birthday

90 Lines For John Ashbery's 90th Birthday

In Memory of a Great American Poet, We're Reposting Birthday Wishes From July

By Literary Hub | September 5, 2017

Joanna Walsh on Sex Writing, Freud, and (the) Marx (Brothers)

Joanna Walsh on Sex Writing, Freud, and (the) Marx (Brothers)

In Conversation with the Writer-Editor-Illustrator-Founder of #Readwomen

By Tobias Carroll | October 15, 2015

TRANCE NOTEBOOK #21[surreptitious nookie with a large astronaut]

TRANCE NOTEBOOK #21[surreptitious nookie with a large astronaut]

Literary Hub Poem of the Week

By Wayne Koestenbaum | October 14, 2015

Poet Selfies

Poet Selfies

Searching for The Thing-In-Itselfie

By Kate Durbin | July 9, 2015