For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

Michael Musto (born December 3 1955) is an American columnist for the The Village Voice where he writes La Dolce Musto. When his blind item describing the buzz on the details of the crime got picked up by The New York Post's "Page Six" gossip column the story took on more prominence. He's appeared in documentaries about actor/writer Charles Busch Paris Hilton Warhol star Jackie Curtis restaurateur Florent Michael Alig camp performer Divine clubs like the Roxy and Squeezebox and many more.

His subsequent collection Fork on the Left Knife in the Back was publiMichael Mustod on September 1 2011 by Vantage Point Books. He is the author of Downtown and Manhattan on the Rocks as well as a compilation of selected columns publiMichael Mustod as La Dolce Musto.