The Imitation Mustache: & Other Essays

In his first essay collection since Figure It Out, Wayne Koestenbaum—eccentric, erudite, and endlessly inquisitive— explores his visions of art, music, and literature with supercharged clarity.

In The Imitation Mustache: & Other Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum brings his “alarmingly focused attention to detail” (John Waters) to a quintessentially Koestenbaumian range of subjects: Susan Sontag’s film Duet for Cannibals and the poet Kevin Killian’s collected Amazon reviews, Alice Neel’s expressive p...