Wayne Koestenbaum
Sunday, April 21
Doors: 5:30pm
Reading: 6pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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Semiotext(e) and the Poetic Research Bureau present the Los Angeles book launch of Wayne Koestenbaum's Stubble Archipelago. Following the reading, Wayne will be joined in conversation with art writer and curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.
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This book of thirty-six poetic bulletins by the humiliation-advice-giver Wayne Koestenbaum will teach you how to cruise, how to dream, how to decode a crowded consciousness, how to find nuggets of satisfaction in unaccustomed corners, and how to sew a language glove roomy enough to contain materials gathered while meandering. Koestenbaum wrote many of these poems while walking around New York City.
More at: https://www.semiotexte.com/stubble-archipelago
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“He’s a scamp, he’s a seer, and he’s a virtuoso.” —Margo Jefferson
“Does contemporary American literature offer any greater pleasure than the polymorphous brilliance of Wayne Koestenbaum?” —Garth Greenwell
“[Wayne Koestenbaum] is a figure of this time, but he also is a writer and thinker for all time. His career streaks above this genre-obsessed, professionalized-writer moment, and corresponds instead to the history of the polymath, the public intellectual, the drifter, the infinite conversationalist.” —Maggie Nelson
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Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, novelist, artist, performer—has published nineteen books, including Camp Marmalade, Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, and Jackie Under My Skin. His latest book, Stubble Archipelago, is out now from Semiotext(e).
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer is an art writer and curator in Los Angeles. She is the author of Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece (Afterall Books, 2014), as well as Joint Dialogue: Lozano, Graham, Kaltenbach (2012) and Can’t Reach Me There (2016). Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, Bomb, CURA, and Mousse. She runs The Finley Gallery, a non-commercial alternative art space in Los Feliz, which has presented over 40 exhibitions primarily by LA area artists since 2011. She is the publisher of Pep Talk, an imprint of limited-run books and things begun in 2009, with a new publication, Fun to be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan, to be released next month.