Tuesday, June 29, 2021

In case you wondered …

Why Stephen Sondheim Is America’s Greatest Living Writer. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


Modern literature is full of difficult, challenging artists who toiled in obscurity until the public caught up with them and made them famous. Sondheim presents the much rarer case of an artist who started out at the heart of the establishment and moved away from it as his work became more ambitious and complex.

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