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While theaters are shut down around the world, theater reporter and columnist Michael Riedel arrives to fill the void with the kind of reporter and backstage gossip that made his years as a New York Post theater columnist so popular. Now working as a radio host with Len Berman on New York’s 710 WOR from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. weekdays, Riedel has just published “Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway,” his second book about a specific period of Broadway history. Published by Simon & Schuster division Avid Reader Press, it’s a followup to “Razzle Dazzle,” an in-depth look at the r...

When COVID hit, I made a vow to read any book strongly recommended to me. That's how I found myself simultaneously devouring Christie Tate's well-written memoir GROUP: HOW ONE THERAPIST AND A CIRCLE OF STRANGERS SAVED MY LIFE (Avid Reader Press) and my favorite 2020 work of fiction, Charles Baxter's THE SUN COLLECTIVE (Pantheon). Overachieving neurotic Tate's revelations aren't earth-shattering but give an honest, entertaining look at healing through opening up to strangers turned allies. Baxter's novel is our story: a society untethered from its moral ground, swaying in the greed and anxie...

Dangerous art Dec 18, 2020 | New bio tells the life story of artist Tom of Finland and why his drawings are far more than erotica Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero by F. Valentine Hooven III, foreword by Jean-Paul Gaultier. (c.2020, Cernunnos, a division of Abrams). $50; 295 pages. Sometimes, you can’t worry about other people’s thoughts. You can listen to them, but you don’t have to hear them because there are days when making yourself happy supersedes any outside opinion, when you need to pay closer attention to you. As in the new biography