unearths some literary gems.
A few Wayne Koestenbaum snippets:
[from "My 1980s"]
I met Tama Janowitz once in the 1980s....At a [Princeton] university gathering, Joyce Carol Oates complimented the ostentatious way that Tama and I were dressed. Seeking system, I replied, "Tama is East Village. I'm West Village."
[from "John Ashberry's Lazy Susan"]
A John Ashberry poem behaves like a lazy susan. Spin it and get whatever condiment you want, without having to say "pardon my reach."
[from "On Doodles, Drawings, Pathetic Erotic Errands, and Writing"
Today I wish to praise an erotics of the off-topic, the not-apropos; an erotics of the beside-the-point.
