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* Tucci, Stanley. What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts). Gallery. Oct. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781668055687. $35. MEMOIR Tucci (Taste: My Ufe Through Food) is an actor, writer, [...]

Idle, Eric. The Spamalot Diaries. Crown. Oct. 2024. 208p. ISBN 9780593800485. $25. THEATER Hit musicals don't spring fully formed from the head of Dionysus, the Greek god of theater. Creating [...]

What's Next: A Backstage Pass to the West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service. By Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack. Aug. 2024. 608p. Dutton, $35 [...]

Everett, William A. The Year That Made the Musical: 1924 and the Glamour of Musical Theatre. Cambridge Univ. Aug. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9781009316514. $39.99. THEATER Musicologist Everett (emeritus, Univ. of [...]

Lisanti, Tom. Dueling Harlows: The Race To Bring the Actress's Life to the Silver Screen. McFarland. Jul. 2024. 254p. ISBN 9781476692593. pap. $39.95. FILM * Jean Harlow (1911-37) lit up [...]

The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music. By Roxanne de Bastion. July 2024. 288p. Pegasus, $29.95 (9781639366873); e-book (9781639366880). 786. When Roxanne de Bastion […]

Ann Sheridan: The Life and Career of Hollywood's Oomph Girl. By Michael D. Rinella. July 2024. 120p. McFarland, paper, $39.95 (9781476694184); e-book (9781476652047). 791.43. Like many young women in small [...]

Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons. By Nancy J. Hajeski. 2024. 240p. illus. Firefly, $24.95 (9780228105039). 791.4302. During Hollywood's early days, studios didn't have costume or wardrobe departments, and [...]

The Art Dealer's Apprentice: Behind the Scenes of the New York Art World. By David Guenther. Mar. 2024. 225p. Rowman & Littlefield, $36 (9781538189672); e-book (9781538189689). 701. In a memoir [...]

The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World's Most Famous Artwork. By Noah Charney. Feb. 2024. 192p. Rowman & Littlefield, $32 (9781538181362); e-book (9781538181379). 759.5. According [...]

This Is Christmas, Song by Song: The Stories behind 100 Holiday Hits. By Annie Zaleski. Oct. 2023. 224p. Illus. Running Press, $26 (9780762482726); e-book (9780762482733). 782.42. Music for Christmas is [...]

Brushed Aside: The Untold Story of Women in Art. By Noah Charney. Oct. 2023. 232p. Illus. Rowman & Littlefield, $45 (9781538170991); e-book (9781538171004). 709. As he did in The 12-Hour [...]

Warhol after Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World. By Richard Dorment. Dec. 2023. 288p. illus. Pegasus, $29.95 (9781639364978); e-book (9781639364985). 709. The art world has a dark [...]

Mabel Normand: The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap. By Timothy Dean Lefler. Oct. 2023. 164p. illus. McFarland, paper, $39.95 (9781476687582). 791.43. Mabel Normand (1892-1930) was not only a [...]

How Art Is Made: The Craft behind the Masterpieces. By Debra N. Mancoff. Oct. 2023. 224p. illus. Quarto/Frances Lincoln, $35 (9780711285095). 701. An artist assembles materials and shapes, or combines [...]

Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man: Behind the Scenes with Music Legends and Finding the Artist Within. By Jim Wilson. Apr. 2024. 264p. illus. New Book Authors, paper, $18.95 [...]

* The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky's Life in Ballet. By Marina Harss. Oct. 2023.464P. illus. Farrar, $35 (9780374102616). 792.84. Alexei Ratmansky is one of this century's most renowned choreographers [...]

Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy. By Stephen M. Silverman. Sept. 2023. 304p. Illus. Black Dog & Leventhal, $35 (9780762482351); e-book (9780762482368). 782.1. If the life and career of [...]

Every Picture Hides a Story: The Secret Ways Artists Make Their Work More Seductive. By William Cane and Anna Gabrielle. Nov. 2022.272p. illus. Rowman & Littlefield, $27 (9781538161364); e-book, $25.50 [...]

Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World. By Rupert Christiansen. Oct. 2022.384p. illus. Farrar, $35 (9780374139698). 792.8. Serge Diaghilev was not a dancer or choreographer, but he nonetheless [...]

Schoenberg: Why He Matters. By Harvey Sachs. July 2023.272p. Norton/Liveright, $29.95 (9781631497575). 789.8. Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone system heralded a new age in classical music, yet today the work of this [...]

A Pocketful of Happiness. By Richard E. Grant. July 2023.352p. Simon & Schuster, $28.99 (9781668030691). 791.43. Grant, a Swazi English actor known for film (Go ford Park, Can You Ever [...]

The Last Masterpiece. By Laura Morelli. Aug. 2023. 416p. Morrow, paper, $18.99 (9780063205987). Morelli's (The Night Portrait, 2020) third novel set in Italy during WWII may be her finest yet. [...]

Disobedient. By Elizabeth Fremantle. June 2023.368p. Pegasus, $26.95 (9781639364152); e-book (9781639364169). In a novel as vivid and powerful as the paintings made by its main character, Fremantle (The Poison Bed, [...]

First Position. By Melanie Hamrick. June 2023.336p. Berkley, paper, $17 (9780593638149). Sylvie Carter is in her fifth year with the North American Ballet. Initially single-minded in her pursuit of perfection [...]

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces. By Patrick Mackie. June 2023.368p. illus. Farrar, $30 (9780374606206); e-book (9780374606213). 780.92. In an intriguing blend of biography and deft [...]

The 100 Greatest Superhero Films and TV Shows. By Zachary Ingle and David M. Sutera. 2022.328p. illus. Rowman & Littlefield, $45 (9781538114506); e-book, $42.50 (9781538114513). 791-43. Superheroes on film--and later, [...]

Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives. By Susan Tomes. Apr. 2024. 304p. illus. Yale, $35 (9780300266573); e-book (9780300277760). 786.1. Today, women pianists are not strangers on the [...]

The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern. By Peter Ackroyd. Apr. 2023.400p. Reaktion, $27.50 (9781789146998). 792. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the English actor is a breed apart. [...]

American Women's History on Film. By Rosanne Welch and Peg A. Lamphier. 2022.170P. ABC-CLIO, $63 (9781440866609). 791.43. The latest entry in ABC-CLIO's Hollywood History series surveys recent films about women [...]

Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists & Religion. By Erika Doss. Mar. 2023. 352p. illus. Univ. of Chicago, $35 (9780226820910). 700. Art historian Doss defines 'spiritual moderns' as 'artists whose methods [...]

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. 19th ed. By John Bartlett. Ed. by Geoffrey O'Brien. 2022. 1,640p. Little, Brown, $60 (9780316375306). 808.88. Bartlett's remains for many the gold standard for quotation books. Although [...]

The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema's Most Influential Filmmakers. By Sloan De Forest. 2021.344p. illus. Running Press/TCM, paper, $25.99 (9780762498932). 791.43. Covering more than 50 notable American [...]

Entertainment Nation: How Music, Television, Film, Sports, and Theater Shaped the United States. Ed. by Kenneth Cohen and John W. Troutman. 2022.272p. illus. Smithsonian, $34.95 (9781588347244). 306.0973. This lively and [...]

Great Women Painters. Oct. 2022.352p. illus. Phaidon, $69.95 (9781838663285). 759-2. The National Museum of Women in the Arts 'addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art by bringing to [...]

Music and Technology: A Historical Encyclopedia. By James E. Perone. 2022. 318p. illus. ABC-CLIO, $97 (9781440878299). 780.3. Technology has always been a part of music and music-making, from ancient one-stringed [...]

Sondheim & Me: Revealing a Musical Genius. By Paul Salsini. Sept 2022.232p. Ulus. Bancroft, $26.95 (9781610885928). 782.14. With the first anniversary of the death of the award-winning composer and lyricist [...]

The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces. By Noah Charney. July 2022. i6op. illus. Rowman & Littlefield, $29.95 (9781538156599); e-book, $28.50 (9781538156605). [...]

Bloomsbury Music and Sound. Oct. 2021. Bloomsbury [bloomsburymusicandsound.com/]. This new digital resource offers access to two comprehensive collections, Bloomsbury Popular Musk and Sound Studies, and there are plans to eventually [...]

The Stage Actor's Handbook: Traditions, Protocols, and Etiquette for the Working and Aspiring Professional. By Michael Kostroff and Julie Garnye. May 2022. 160p. illus. Rowman & Littlefield, paper, $19.95 (9781538160435); [...]

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays. By Minnie Driver. May 2022. 288p. HarperOne, $27.99 (9780063115309). 791-45 A memoir, William Zinsser writes, 'isn't the summary of a life; it's a window [...]

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. By Isaac Butler. Feb. 2022. 512p. Bloomsbury, $30 (9781635574777). 792.028. According to Butler (The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of [...]