Thank you!

My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum review – as fierce and strange as anything you’ll read this year With echoes of Balzac and Proust, this tale of obsessive love evokes the dangers and delights of forbidden desire

A beautiful review of my new novel: thank you to the great Neil Bartlett. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.

The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

The youngest member of Congress doesn't seem to have trouble responding to this in a normal human way. Not sure why it's so hard for representatives with decades more experience

Tonight! Zoom! City Lights! Conversation with Tausif Noor! Topic: “My Lover, the Rabbi”! citylights.com/events/wayne... @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social @tausifnoor.bsky.social

I’m delighted to be appearing with the brilliant Tausif Noor in a City Lights online event to discuss my new novel, “My Lover, the Rabbi,” on Wednesday, April 1, 6pm PT / 9pm EST. Maximum conversational voltage guaranteed! Register here: citylights.com/events/wayne...

#nokings in Hudson
gloves and hat
the essential accents
to demonstrate
spirit’s survival

#nokings in Hudson
chanting with
the best of them
in harmony or out
of tune, the tune
is not the point,
the words are

#nokings in Hudson, NY
always in search of signs

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And I’ll add that I have never read anything like @dfelsenthal.bsky.social review/essay/sonorous exegesis of @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social ’s fat and hairy new book. Can’t wait to dive in.

Thanks!

Here is Daniel Felsenthal's brilliant and generous review of my new novel, "My Lover, the Rabbi." I can't imagine a more gratifying and gleaming analysis.

Thank you, Reuben!

A red book cover with an abstracted image of a rose in grayscale and the text "MY LOVER, THE RABBI a novel Wayne Koestenbaum"

"treating language as a whisk to beat the unseparated yolks and albumen of the congregation's dreaming mind"

One of many sumptuous phrases from @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social's new novel

What Wayne Koestenbaum Learned From Gilligan’s Island (And Why He Will Never Finish Reading Marx’s Capital) Wayne Koestenbaum’s new novel, My Lover, the Rabbi, is out now from FSG, so we asked him a few questions about writing, reading, and whatever else was on his mind. As ever, Koestenbaum did not disa…

@waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social, author of My Lover, the Rabbi, explains why Gilligan’s Island taught him “how to be bumbling and small while receiving the protection of an older, bigger man.”

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“The stories he told himself about his own perilous and erratic progress through the world would be reshaped to place this anal ailment at the summit of his pilgrimage.”

From the novel My Lover, the Rabbi, by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social.

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“The anal specialist—‘my butt doctor,’ the rabbi proudly called him—did not forbid anal intercourse.”

From the novel My Lover, the Rabbi, by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social.

My Lover, the Rabbi “I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”

"To the rabbi I’d promised a loyalty so primal and regressive it almost qualified as a throwback to a totalitarian, fascistic style of erotic attachment."

Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...

My Lover, the Rabbi “I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”

"It wasn’t the rabbi’s cock I wanted in my face, it was the sense of annihilation and relief that rushed over me when his cock finally arrived to smother and obliterate my restlessness and ambivalence."

Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social:
jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...

My Lover, the Rabbi “I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”

“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”

Fiction by @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/my-lover-the...

From my past, this stirring and enigmatic phrase, Emerson’s, returns to me, like a keepsake I’d misplaced, and I am roused almost to action by the forgotten question’s reappearance: “Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to nature?”

U.S., horror-catalyst, ungoverned land
in which I live and sometimes thrive —
paradox of dwelling inside this mallet
striking and destroying—
self-disgust at dwelling
inside the unlawful arm
reaching without pity or deliberation
into other people’s schools
and sanctuaries—

Wayne Koestenbaum & Morgan Bassichis Choose an RSVP Option: I'd just like a seat, please - $5 I'd like the book and a seat - $19

New York City launch for my new novel! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/wayne-...

In Wayne Koestenbaum’s First Novel in Two Decades, Gay Lust Incarnate Is a Rabbi With a Dad Bod My Lover, the Rabbi, out March 17, follows an unnamed protagonist's agonizing infatuation with an aging religious leader.

www.culturedmag.com/article/2026...

Two sentences from my forthcoming novel. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Rabbi Hole, by Wayne Koestenbaum

An excerpt from my forthcoming novel, “My Lover, the Rabbi,” to be published by FSG in March 2026. harpers.org/archive/2026...

in an undoctored photo, I’m waving hello or goodbye to you

this morning: looking out my dirty, south-facing window, through a scrim of succulents: