A New Sondheim Biography Drops This Summer. The Timing Is Pointed.

Daniel Okrent's Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy is landing in the middle of a Broadway summer that has been notably short on the kind of ambition Sondheim spent his career demanding. That's not a coincidence, it's a provocation. The book is already generating the kind of conversation that makes publicists nervous and readers reach for their wallets.