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TT: It just keeps rolling along

December 28, 2009 by Terry Teachout

The holiday hubbub surrounding Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong is subsiding at last, but the book continues to sell nicely and–almost as important–people continue to write about it, almost always with the utmost enthusiasm. Here are some recent links that will interest you if you’re interested in Pops:
• USA Today calls Pops “superb, clear and definitive.”
• The Associated Press calls it “magnificent.”
• The Christian Science Monitor calls it “informative and insightful.”
• City Journal calls it “luminous.”
• “When Terry Teachout writes something, you read it. And you are richly rewarded.” So says Jay Nordlinger apropos of Pops in National Review.
• Milt Rosenberg recently spoke to me about Pops on WGN’s Extension 720, his Chicago radio show. To download a podcast of the interview, go here.
Finally, two reminders about upcoming in-person appearances: I’ll be talking about, reading from, and signing copies of Pops at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., at seven p.m. on Thursday, January 7. For more information, go here.
I’ll also be doing a star turn at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens on Saturday, January 9. Admission is free, but reservations are essential for this afternoon event, which also includes a guided tour of the house where Armstrong lived. For more information, go here.

TT: Passing through

December 28, 2009 by Terry Teachout

Mrs. T and I made it back from Smalltown, U.S.A., to Bigtown, N.Y., without significant incident. We were, to be sure, patted down by security officers at the St. Louis airport on Sunday morning (her purse tested positive for TNT!). On the other hand, we managed to steer clear of the snow in New York and Chicago, so I’d say we made on the deal.
Alas, we won’t be here for long, and on Friday we’ll fly down to Florida, about which more in due course. For now, though, I plan to enjoy the half-forgotten sensations of (A) reveling in the contents of the Teachout Museum and (B) sleeping in my own bed.
Blogging will be light.

TT: Almanac

December 28, 2009 by Terry Teachout

“No true nun is afraid of death. ‘I wish I knew when I was going to die,’ ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said. ‘I wish I knew.’
“‘Why, Dame?’
“‘Then I should know what to read next.'”
Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede

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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