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Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. Appendixes. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994
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Rollow, David. "'That was Czgowchwz, her story, history': The Fictions of James McCourt."
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Hoffman, William Moses. "The Interior Landscape of James McCourt."
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American-born writer and novelist who was raised in
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"The central photo was taken by Laura Rubin a long time ago, and the ones on the far right were taken even longer ago: Jimmy McCourt in Central Park the summer before we met at Yale in '64 and me getting on a boat in Amsterdam in '65." Vincent Virga
Yale School of Drama
Vincent Virga
gay
Jackson Heights, Queens
life partner
Vincent Virga
Yale University
Yale School of Drama
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Mawrdew Czgowchwz
Susan Sontag
Harold Bloom
Dennis Cooper
Wayne Koestenbaum
Mawrdew Czgowchwz
The Canticle of Skoozle
"James McCourt: On Divas and Drag Queens"
The East Hampton Star
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Opera soap: author James McCourt enjoys the encore publication of the zany opera novel he wrote two decades ago


"Home - Vincent Virga"
"Guide to the James McCourt and Vincent Virga Papers"
"Bloom. Western Canon"
L.A. Times review of Now Voyagers
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