Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced “Mardu Gorgeous”) bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serio...
Well, it just sings. -Susan Sontag'Drugs, dick, disco, and dish-remember?' That's how the drag queen Miss Mae Mae describes the good times in James McCourt's 1993 novel, Time Remaining. She is on her deathbed, clutching a stuffed bear, and she marvel...
An operatic, satirical romp through (high and low) Washington -- filled with politicos and pundits, divas and divine spirits -- by the greatly admired author of Time Remaining and the cult classic Mawrdew Czgowchwz ("Bravo, James McCourt, a literary ...
The beyond-great Hollywood star returns in seven pyrotechnic tales that become -- somehow -- a family saga spread over seventeen years.
Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake encompasses friends, relations, and some passersby -- as James McCourt ...
“James McCourt is an ecstatic fabulist, robustly funny and inventive, and touchingly in love with his subject.” -- Newsweek
“James McCourt's Now Voyagers is a sustained fugue of inspiration. Scathing wit, gentle ironies, comic pratfall...