Selected Publications

Books

Sedaris. University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2007.
           David

Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
          Introduction

The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky. Stanford University Press, 1997.
          Inscription

Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire. Stanford University Press, 1996.
          From Chapter One

Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics. Stanford University Press, 1994. 
          Introduction

Articles

"My So-Called Crime," Massachusetts Review (forthcoming).

"The Sonic Mirror," The Iowa Review 37.2 (2007).

"Critical Virtuosity," The Iowa Review 32.1 (2002).

"Finishing Proust," The Iowa Review 31.2 (2001).

"Nijinsky's Golden Slave," in Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage, ed. Jane Desmond (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001).

"Notes from Underground," Journal x 3.2 (1999).

"Metropolitan Opera / Suburban Identity," in The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference, ed. Richard Dellamora and Daniel Fischlin (Columbia University Press, 1997).

"Funérailles," GLQ 3.1 (1996).

"Roland Barthes," in Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, ed. Claude Summers (New York: Henry Holt, 1995).

"Exposer sa pédérastie," Franco-Italica 6, Série contemporaine (1994).

"Tawdrily, I Adore Him," Nineteenth-Century Music 17.3 (Spring 1994).

"Fake It Like A Man," Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality, ed. David Bergman (University of Massachusetts Press, 1993).

"Wilde's Love-Deaths," The Yale Journal of Criticism 5.3 (Fall 1992).

"Seeing Sodomy: Fanny Hill's Blinding Vision," Journal of Homosexuality 23.1/2 (Fall 1992) and Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context, ed. Claude J. Summers (New York: Haworth, 1992).

"Wilde, Barthes, and the Orgasmics of Truth," Genders 7 (Spring 1990).

Reviews

Rev. of Opera: The Art of Dying, Linda and Michael Hutcheon, English Studies in Canada 30.4 (2004).

Rev. of Decadence and Catholicism, Ellis Hanson, SubStance 31.1 (2002).

Rev. of Franz Liszt: The Final Years, Alan Walker, The Romantic Generation, Charles Rosen, and Franz Liszt: Selected Letters, ed. Adrian Williams, London Review of Books 22.10 (2000).

Rev. of After the Lovedeath; Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture, Lawrence Kramer, Modern Language Quarterly 60.3 (1999).

Rev. of Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, Richard Taruskin,  SubStance 27.3 (1998).

Rev. of Shine, Scott Hicks, London Review of Books 19.7 (1997).

Rev. of Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature, Lawrence Schehr, Comparative Literature (Fall 1997). Rpt. in LGSN (Summer 1996).

Rev. of Homos, Leo Bersani, SubStance 25.1 (1996).

Rev. of Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music, Theodor Adorno,  SubStance 24:3 (1995).

Rev. of A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society, Bruce Bawer, LGSN (March 1994).

Rev. of Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism, ed. Joseph A. Boone and Michael Cadden, Journal of the History of Sexuality (Jan. 1993).

Rev. of Aestheticism and Deconstruction: Pater, Derrida, and de Man, Jonathan Loesberg, and Aestheticism: The Religion of Art in Post-Romantic Literature, Leon Chai, Victorian Studies (Fall 1992).

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