He is a Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Visiting Professor in the Painting Department of the Yale School of Art.Nationality: American. Koestenbaum won a Whiting Writer's Award in 1994. Wayne Koestenbaum's publications include the nonfiction books Andy Warhol and Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars and Aesthetics the novel Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes, and the poetry collections Model Homes, The Milk of Inquiry, Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender, and Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems. Edmund White currently teaches writing at Princeton University. His cultural works include the anthology Gay Short Fiction, a travelogue States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, and a pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex: An Intimate Guide for Gay Men to the Pleasures of a Gay Life. His novels include Forgetting Elena and Nocturnes for the King of Naples. He is the author of nearly 20 books, including the recent autobiography My Lives. In 1999, at the age of 26, she was arrested for her journalistic activities and spent three months in solitary confinement.Įdmund White was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Chicago and Illinois. In Iran, she wrote for a number of newspapers, including the leading reformist daily, Zan. LaFerrière divides his time between Montreal and Miami.Ī journalist and native of Tehran, Entekhabifard has been a contributor to O, the Oprah Magazine and has reported on Iranian and Afghan affairs for AP, Reuters, EurasiaNet, The Village Voice, and Mother Jones.
His short stories have also been adapted into the recent film Heading South.
The novel was later adapted into a screenplay by LaFerrière and Richard Sadler, and earned a Genie Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. His first novel was Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired). He was a journalist in Canada, and hosted a television program for the TQS network. She is currently at work on her next novel, Yuyu and the Banyan Tree.īorn in Port-au-Prince, Dany LaFerrière worked as a journalist in Ha?ti before moving to Canada. Her first novel, FireWife, was published in 2007. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. This event is co-sponsored by PEN American Center in association with PEN World Voices, The New York Festival of International Literature.īorn and raised in Malaysia, Tinling Choong graduated from Wellesley College and is working toward her Ph.D. Join these authors for a discussion with Wayne Koestenbaum about how contemporary literature continues to derive nourishment from eroticism at its most unconventional and forbidden. Tinling Choong, Dany LaFerrière, Camelia Entekhabifard, and Edmund White have written books that play with taboo and off-limit aspects of sexuality, whether at home, on the streets, or behind a burka.
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