Wayne Koestenbaum: “The Cheerful Scapegoat”

Wayne Koestenbaum’s first book of short fiction, “The Cheerful Scapegoat,” is a spectacularly odd and original collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables. With each sentence a surprise, this is writing that explores the inside of your reading mind. A weird comedy that offers total immersion, with non sequiturs as its homeland, Koestenbaum says he wrote it in ghostly collaboration with Robert Walser.

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