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TT: Yes, Virginia, still more about Pops

December 7, 2009 by Terry Teachout

I expect that some of you have heard more than enough about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Alas, the good news keeps flooding in, so I’ll keep it as short as possible today and restrict myself to posting the latest links:
• John Schaefer will interview me about Pops on WNYC’s Soundcheck today at two p.m. ET. Listen live in the New York area by tuning to 93.9 FM, or go here to listen on your computer via streaming audio.
• New Yorkers, take further note: I’ll be reading from and signing copies of Pops tonight at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble, located at Broadway and Sixty-Sixth Street. The show starts at 7:30. Go here for more information.
LA%20ON%20STAND%20WITH%20ALL%20STARS.jpg• On Tuesday I fly to Los Angeles, where I’ll be speaking about Pops at the Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library, located at 630 W. Fifth Street. The show starts at seven p.m. Go here for more information.
• To read David Margolick’s New York Times Book Review piece about Pops, go here.
• To read the Seattle Times‘ review of Pops, go here.
• The Atlantic‘s review of Pops is now out. To read it, go here.
• Pops made the Chicago Tribune‘s list of the best nonfiction of 2009. To see the full list, go here.
• Ed Champion interviewed me about Pops for the latest episode of The Bat Segundo Show. To listen in streaming audio or download the program as a podcast, go here. (This is, if I do say so myself, an unusually interesting interview.)
• To read the final installment of Marc Myers’ five-part interview with me, go here.
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For those who long to hear about something–anything–else, you’ll find plenty of brand-new non-Pops stuff in the right-hand column and immediately above this posting, with more regular blogging continuing tomorrow.

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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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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...]

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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...]

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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...]

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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...]

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