‘Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess’ author to appear May 4

Browseabout Books will host author Kathy Biehl for a signing of her latest work, “Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess: Traipsing Through a World Gone Weird,” from 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 4, at 133 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach.

At the end of the 20th century, while mainstream television and movies popularized an expensively dressed version of modern adult life, a rawer and definitely weirder reality was playing out offscreen. As a columnist, Biehl chronicled the scene from a singular and heavily trafficked intersection of young professionals, performing and outsider artists, Unitarians, gays and lesbians, metaphysicians, traveling statues, and beings that defied categorizing.

This essay collection snapshots their sexual tension, ambivalence and confusion, along with perils of fan mail and professional caroling; celebrities (real and impersonators), snooping repairmen and divine manifestations; ludicrous journeys, backstage dramas and driveway parties; close-ups with a strange, frightening disease; her own accidental attainment of goddesshood; and other mystery-marvels of life on the bridge to the millennium.

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