Peter Coviello is the author of six books, including Long Players (Penguin Books, 2018), Make Yourselves Gods (University of Chicago Press, 2019), and, most recently, Is There God After Prince: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things (Univeristy of Chicago Press, 2023). He is Professor and Head of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Peter Coviello
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A Brief Queer History of Going to Bed with Your Hot Friends
I worried that, in obscure but consequential ways, I had already begun to fail her.
Killing Joke
Some things you fall for a little too fast and a little too hard. Not that long ago, a novelist friend urged this novel on me, the way your novelist friends are wont to do. “You’ll like it,” he said. And then, in response to what may have been something unpersuaded in my aspect: “In […]
“Say Chi City”
If you want to fall wrackingly, despairingly in love with a place, here’s what you do: leave it. When I was young and wintering out my graduate years, marooned in the penitential bleakness of upstate New York, I grew fond of declaring that, once I turned 30, I was going to go ahead and start […]
