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CAAF: Morning coffee

January 29, 2008 by cfrye

• Quiet Bubble’s appreciation of The Royal Tenenbaums riffs fruitfully on the film’s debt to Charles Schulz’s Peanuts.
• If you haven’t yet caught up with Lizzie Skurnick’s wonderful “Fine Lines” feature at Jezebel, now is the time. The series revisits classics of children and YA literature. The subject of last week’s entry was Katherine Paterson’s Jacob Have I Loved, a book I haven’t re-read in a long while but which I think about all the time. (Random, inside-baseball observation: Lately I’ve taken to hoping that Lizzie will write a girl detective series with a heroine named Mirabile Dictu. Or if not Lizzie, someone should write it.)
• Speaking of such, The Independent gets ten writers to share their failed darlings, the books they wrote or planned to write that never made it into print. Like Jenny, from whom I pinched the link, I was especially charmed by Amanda Cross’s entry, which begins:

I have a few “sock drawer novels” knocking around – a dreadful romantic thriller set on Capri, a historical tragedy inspired by the life of the poet Catullus and a mock-Gothic mystery involving the Brothers Grimm. All were half-written in my teens and early twenties, when I was under the delusion that fiction was about fame, money and the love of beautiful men.

Two things: 1) I would happily read any and all of those books as outlined; and 2) fame, money and the love of beautiful men are the main reasons I write: Don’t take away my dreams, Cross!

TT: Almanac

January 29, 2008 by Terry Teachout

“The historian’s job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.”
Peter Conrad, The Art of the City

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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