Thomas Beller ’s books include “ Seduction Theory,” “ The Sleep-Over Artist,” and “ J. D. Salinger: The Escape Artist,” which won the New York City Book Award for biography/memoir. He teaches at Tulane University and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
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Bill Bradley, a staid member of the rarefied (the Rhodes Scholarship), the very rarefied (the U.S. Senate), and the super-rarefied (the Knicks’ two championship teams), premières his autobiographical one-man Broadway show, “Rolling Along.”
During Christmas vacation, Alex comes home from Vassar to his mother's apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is depressed about breaking up…