Peter Coviello is professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he specializes in American literature and queer studies. He has written about queer childhood, Mormon polygamy, the history of sexuality, stepparenthood, Justin Bieber, Walt Whitman, and, whenever he’s had occasion to, Prince. He’s the author of several books – his book from 2013, Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America, was a finalist for a Lambda Award in LGBT Studies – the most recent of which is Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs, out now from Penguin.
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