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May 5, 2005
TT: Surprisingly wakeful
I just thought you'd like to know that I did indeed work all night, and that I finished writing the second of the first two chapters of Hotter Than That: A Life of Louis Armstrong a few minutes ago, a couple of hours' worth of line editing excepted. Once that's done, all I have to do is print both chapters out and take them downtown to André Bernard, my editor at Harcourt. I hope he's planning to give me a very good lunch.Now that I'm done, I'll be heading north tomorrow afternoon for the wedding of my ex-assistant (better known as one of the Lascivious Biddies), at which I'll be reading a Shakespeare sonnet, a first for this newly minted drama critic. I told a friend the other day that I was putting my mouth where my money was!
I'll be posting Friday's almanac entry and the weekly teaser for my Wall Street Journal drama column before I go, but nothing else until Monday. I'm sure you understand. I'm still running fairly smoothly on the vast amount of adrenalin built up by my recent labors and my trip to Washington, D.C., but at some point in the next few hours I have no doubt that the bottom will fall out. That's all right, though: I don't think I've ever been so happy with anything I've written in my whole life as I am with these two chapters.
On which note I'd better be getting back to work. See you later.
Posted May 5, 2005 7:43 AM
