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TT: Imperdível!

August 17, 2010 by Terry Teachout

Pops%20newly%20arrived%21.jpgPops: A Vida de Louis Armstrong has just been published in Brazil by Larousse. One of my Brazilian friends saw Pops in a bookstore over the weekend, took a photo of the display with her cellphone, and sent it to me via e-mail. It’s a bit fuzzy, but I think you’ll get the idea.
Here is the Portuguese catalogue copy, which is surprisingly intelligible, even to a monoglot like me:

Esta é a biografia definitiva de um gênio nascido na sarjeta que se tornou uma celebridade conhecida nos quatro cantos do mundo.
O biógrafo Teachout pesquisou e avaliou a vida e o trabalho de Armstrong como ninguém jamais o fez. Da infância pobre, do precoce interesse pela música, de sua vida em Nova Orleans até a mudança para Chicago, e muito além, o autor mergulha fundo na história desse ícone da música.
Tudo na medida exata. Palavras e sentimentos. Segredos e crueza. Síntese e exagero. A medida exata para alguém chamado Louis Armstrong.
Imperdível!

This is the first time that any of my books has been translated into another language and published by a major foreign house, and seeing as how I have a special love for Brazil and its music, I’m touched that I should have made my international debut south of the border.

TT: Almanac

August 17, 2010 by Terry Teachout

“The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.”
Paul Klee, diary entry #733 (December 1905)

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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