Michael Musto
The Oscar Wilde of gossip celebrates more than 20 years of dishing the goods in a new book of his collected Village Voice columns. He speaks to BLUE about being the fastest tattler on two wheels.
Here’s the dish. Michael Musto revealed during his interview with Blue that he could "have ended up on a killing rampage or just killing myself". Yet, by the grace of being a weekly gossip columnist for the Village Voice,he has kept his inner beast leashed. Besides, Musto points out while enjoying a beautiful day in a garden on Jane Street in the West Village of New York City, "This is much safer – just attacking people in print."
Twenty plus years of Musto’s dishy print is served up in his new book, La Dolce Musto (Carroll & Graf). A wickedly entertaining collection that captures the low down on New York City’s ever transforming kaleidoscope of nightlife, culture and celebrities from Madonna and Nina Hagen to the Hiltons, Musto’s book is more than just a best-of anthology. It’s a witty and perceptive first-hand chronicle of New York City from the emergence of the AIDS crisis to the present day...
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