Margaret’s Reviews > Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim – The Intimate Portrait of a Composer-Lyricist Revealing His Creative Process > Status Update

DT Max, my man, do not tell Sondheim that you rhymed "vodka" with "babka" and expect him to be impressed. (If you'd bothered to read his books of lyrics, you'd know how he feels about near rhymes.) There are some good Sondheim nuggets in here, but it's a slog getting to them through the author's deliberate ignorance and presumably non-deliberate self-absorption.