Scott Martelle, who profiled me earlier this year in Publishers Weekly, has now written a Pops-related interview that will appear in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. It’s crammed full of good quotes, and it also contains a description of me that is causing a fair amount of mirth in my household:
Teachout…is a heavyset man with a wide, expressive smile and glasses that make him look owlish. He speaks in long, discursive paragraphs, his diction precise, his tone a bit arch and bearing no hint of Missouri, where he grew up in a small town.
HE Do I really sound arch when I talk?
An excruciatingly long pause
SHE Welllllllll…
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Read the whole thing here.
As I noted in my review of The Starry Messenger, Kenneth Lonergan went eight years between plays, and many of his admirers, myself among them, had long since started to fear that he was falling victim to the same curse of sterility that previously struck down such artists as Ralph Ellison and Aaron Copland, both of whom fell silent at the peak of their careers and subsequently found it impossible to create new works.