Model Homes

No competing titles. Galleys will be sent to reviewers in July. Postcards will be distributed to bookstores, universities, individuals, and literary centers. Brochures detailing author and title information will be sent to reviewers and targeted individuals. As a New York City-based art critic, Wayne has many connections in the NYC art and literature world, and will be doing readings in New York City and around the United States.

Urbane, ribald, melancholic and wry, Koestenbaum puts a memorable spin on the status quo notion of domestic arrangements.Wayne Koestenbaum knows how to drop the language in the blender of the imagination and hit frappe! The 13 ottava rima cantos in Model Homes present a neo-Freudian tale of the goings-on in the poet's present home and various events from his childhood. Modulating a voice that is urbane and ribald, melancholic and wry, Koestenbaum puts a memorable spin on the status quo notion of domestic arrangements. Wayne Koestenbaum holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. He was co-winner of the 1989 Discovery/The Nation poetry contest, has published three books of poetry and three books of prose, and writes frequently for The New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books and other periodicals. He lives in New York, NY.