Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films: New Poems (2006) is Wayne Koestenbaum's fifth book of poetry. Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (2005)--the book Nabokov wished he could have written, if only he'd been a little bit gayer--was Wayne's first novel. Andy Warhol (2001) was his first biography, and Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics (2000) was his fourth book of cultural and literary criticism. Jackie O (1997) was his first opera libretto.

Wayne, three of whose classes, including "Opera and Gender," I took at Yale, is a professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. I interviewed him at his Chelsea apartment in 2004.