James McCourt was born in 1941. He lives in New York City and spends his summers in Ireland. In addition to Mawrdew Czgowchwz, he is the author of Time Remaining and Kaye Wayfaring in "Avenged". His latest is Delancey's Way, which was published to popular and critical acclaim in 2000. Wayne Koestenbaum is the author of Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon and The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, as well as several collections of poetry and a libretto for the opera Jackie O. His most recent work is the Penguin Lives biography of Andy Warhol.
"McCourt is the author of perhaps the best novel about opera."
—Publishers Weekly
"McCourt makes brave comic choices, delighting in mythic celebrity
while dissecting the ways it is made and sustained. Bravo! Encore!"
—John Lahr
"Bravo, James McCourt, a literary countertenor in the exacting
tradition of Firbank and Nabokov, who makes his daringly
self-assured debut with this intelligent and very funny book."
—Susan Sontag
"Mawrdew Czgowchwz is a Zuleika Dobson of the opera world. James
McCourt is an ecstatic fabulist, robustly funny and inventive, and
touchingly in love with his subject. His novel is both special and
precious, in the most honorable senses of those words."
—Newsweek
"A gloriously flamboyant debut. Take it in spoonfuls and you’ll
find passages to fall in love with. Sooner or later, you may even
find yourself reading them aloud to your friends." —Christopher
Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
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