Humiliation

Wayne Koestenbaum has published five books of poetry, one novel, and six books of non-fiction. A graduate of Harvard and Princeton, he is a distinguished professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center (New York) and also a visiting professor in the painting department of the Yale School of Art.

'One of my favorite recent books: psychologically astute, verbally pyrotechnic, bottomlessly provocative, surprisingly funny, and immensely sad. An extraordinary meditation on nothing less than – I don't know how else to say it – the human condition.’