Fiction. NOW VOYAGERS is the long-awaited sequel to James McCourt's first novel, the comic masterpiece MAWDREW CZGOWCHWZ (pronounced mardu gorgeous). "The language that delivers this extraordinary novel shimmers and crackles. Even the longest sentences dance their surefooted way through thickets of references that call up every detail of 1950s New York...Through the book runs a passion for opera, its iconic performances, its grand gestures and green jealousies. This is a big novel -- big in size, big in ambition, big in its emotions, big in its capacious reach. There has been nothing like it for many a year" -- Brian O'Doherty.

James McCourt (born 1941) is an American writer and novelist. McCourt is openly gay. His life partner since 1964 is novelist Vincent Virga; they met in graduate school at Yale. McCourt is best known for his extravagant 1975 novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz, about a fictional opera diva, and his 2003 nonfiction book Queer Street, about gay life in New York City after World War II. His latest novel, Now Voyagers, is the first in a series of projected sequels to Mawrdew Czgowchwz.