Peter Coviello

Peter Coviello has written about Walt Whitman, Steely Dan, Mormon polygamy, the history of sexuality, queer children, American literature, Maine winter, stepparenthood, Prince, and much besides. This work has appeared in venues like The Believer, Raritan, Public Books, Frieze, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as in five books. These include Tomorrow's Parties (2013), Make Yourselves Gods (2018), as well as a memoir, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs, published by Penguin Books in 2018. A 2017-18 fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, he is Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He lives in Chicago.