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TT: Don’t touch that dial!

December 15, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Here’s what I looked like talking about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong on Chicago’s WGN-TV earlier today:
 

TT: Adventures in Chicagoland

December 15, 2009 by Terry Teachout

If you’re (A) a resident of the greater Chicago area and (B) anywhere near a TV set at 11:35 on Tuesday morning, I urge you to tune in Channel 9 and watch me talk about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong on the “Midday Fix” segment of WGN’s Midday News.
If you’re really feeling adventurous, I’ll be speaking about and signing copies of Pops at the Highland Park Public Library at seven p.m. The library is located at 494 Laurel Avenue in Highland Park. Go here for more information.
Next stop: St. Louis. More about that on Wednesday. Later!

TT: Still ticking

December 15, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Four years ago today I informed the readers of this blog that I’d just had a brush with death. Last week I received this message from one of my Twitter followers:

take it easy bub, don’t push it. u r livin’ a dream, so that might sound like envy, yet we W@ched u take a pit stop a few ago

Not to worry. I’m doing my very best to take it as easy as possible out on the road, and the craziness will end on Friday when I wrap up the current leg of my book tour and head for Smalltown, U.S.A., there to spend a week in the bosom of my family and (I hope) get some much-needed sleep. In the meantime, I’m overflowing with gratitude, not just for the unexpected success of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong but for the great good fortune that has come my way in the past four years, starting with–and above all–the arrival of Mrs. T.
May all of you be at least as lucky in 2010.

TT: Almanac

December 15, 2009 by Terry Teachout

“The blaze of a reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket.”
Samuel Johnson, letter to Hester Thrale (May 1, 1780)

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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