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CAAF: Afternoon coffee

April 15, 2009 by ldemanski

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Tonight Maud Newton, Lizzie Skurnick, and Kate Christensen read at Housing Works. As I know Terry and OGIC would agree, it’s a dream line-up. The event’s been well publicized, and I trust if you’re in New York and free this evening you already have plans to be there. But for the rest of us, the ardent but geographically challenged supporters, here’s an afternoon coffee break of reading by the three authors to enjoy:
• This week Narrative Magazine is offering an excerpt from Maud’s novel-in-progress, “When the Flock Changed,” as its Story of the Week. Maud’s a dear friend so I know I’ll appear biased, but I am sincere in saying it’s a must-read.
• Lizzie’s book of poems, Check-In, was recently re-issued by Caketrain in an expanded second edition. I have the first edition and it’s wonderful, and I need to order the second edition for the 14 new poems and new sexy cover. You can listen to Lizzie read her poem “Grand Central, Track 23” on PBS’s Poetry Everywhere website.
• If you’re a regular reader of About Last Night, you’ll know that we’re all three great admirers of Kate Christensen’s novels. Her new novel, Trouble, comes out in June, and it sounds amazing. This past weekend she reviewed Arthur Phillips’ new novel, The Song Is You, for The New York Times Book Review; it was (I believe) the first piece of critical writing I’ve read by her, and it was funny and enjoyable to note how directly the pleasures of reading a Kate Christensen novel (intelligence, felicity of phrase) translate into the pleasures of reading a Kate Christensen review.

TT: Snapshot

April 15, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Gary Burton plays an unaccompanied blues solo on vibraharp:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac

April 15, 2009 by Terry Teachout

“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”
B.B. King (quoted in the Sunday Times of London, Nov. 4, 1984)

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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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