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TT: The horror! The horror!

October 14, 2008 by Terry Teachout

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.

TT: The kind of mail you like to open

October 14, 2008 by Terry Teachout

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.

TT: Almanac

October 14, 2008 by Terry Teachout

“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)

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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