Archives for October 14, 2008

If you’re a biographer, you’ll appreciate this: I spent most of Monday making sure that the manuscript of A Cluster of Sunlight: The Life of Louis Armstrong conforms to fair-use requirements for quotations from copyrighted sources. I ended up chopping some three thousand-odd words out of what I’d thought was the final draft, which (octuple arrgh) made the book better.
Alas, my eyes are now red and gritty from excessive busywork, and I don’t have it in me to finish the post I started writing about my recent art-related adventures, so you’ll have to do without it until tomorrow. In lieu of a nice juicy posting, kindly note that I posted all sorts of new stuff in the right-hand column over the weekend. But you already noticed that, right? No? Well, get cracking.

From a regular reader of “About Last Night”:

Best wishes on your anniversary. May you have many more and may they all be as happy as this one. It has now been five years that your blog has been an almost daily part of my life. For that I thank you deeply. It has enriched my life in ways that you cannot even imagine.

What can I say? The pleasure is all ours.

“A portrait is a painting where there’s always something not quite right about the mouth.”
John Singer Sargent, quoted by Max Beerbohm in S.N. Behrman, Portrait of Max (courtesy of John Pancake)