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CAAF: Afternoon coffee

January 9, 2008 by cfrye

• Jorge Luis Borges foretold the Internet.
• The marvelous James Hynes on what to read after Season 5 of The Wire. Nice to see some love for Denise Mina’s great Paddy Meehan books. (Via Pinky’s Paperhaus.)
• The Surreal Life: A fur lifejacket, “not intended for wear, but it would function perfectly in any capsize or other drowning emergency.” So, stylish and practical. (Via Lux Lotus.)

OGIC: A little housekeeping

January 9, 2008 by ldemanski

Rats and consternation. Somehow, sometime, someway, M.S. Smith’s new incarnation of his nonpareil culture blog, Where the Stress Falls, fell off our blogroll. We don’t know how this happened–its predecessor site, CultureSpace, had been a longtime favorite here and in fact made an appearance as a Top Five–but we’re happy to restore it now, and to give special mention to Smith’s recently posted essays on his favorite movies and music of 2007.
And it’s with keen regret that we note the tentative retirement of another blogroll mainstay and another Top Fiver, James Tata, whose blog chronicling his cultural and literary enthusiasms has long been a reliable pleasure. He says:

I’m tired of having opinions about everything I read and watch and listen to. I think I’d like to be an open aperture for a while, just taking it all in.

Here’s to a rejuvenating break from opinion-having, and here’s hoping for a mere hiatus.

TT: Almanac

January 9, 2008 by Terry Teachout

The stars are

Although I do not sing

About them–

The sky and the trees

Are indifferent

To whom they please

The rose is unmoved

By my nose

And the garland in your hair

Although your eyes be lakes, dies


Why sigh for a star

Better bay at the moon

Better bay at the moon

Oh moon, moon, moon


Samuel Menashe, “The Stars Are”

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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