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TT: Absent but present

July 3, 2012 by Terry Teachout

I’m still on ice at the MacDowell Colony, writing furiously and happily, but I’ve just made two guest appearances in cyberspace:
SummerReadingMain.jpg• Today I contributed to Beach Reads for Smart People, a summer-reading list posted by my friend Hannah Miet on The Atlantic Wire. Among those present: Stephen Elliott, Sasha Frere-Jones, Emily Gould, Frederick Kaufman, and Marcy Dermansky. I don’t feel remotely cool enough to keep such company–it’s as though I crashed the wrong party.
• Jon Winokur quizzed me a few days ago for his AdviceToWriters site. You might find my answers interesting, or not.
Now, back to work!

TT: Lookback

July 3, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Mirror_reflection.jpgFrom 2005:

As for Arlington National Cemetery, my brother and I spent a whole morning there, and could easily have spent a whole day if we’d had more time to spare. It’s no place for the flippant–Arlington has a way of making the overheard remarks of ironically inclined visitors sound shameful–but it has much to offer the aesthete, even the soul-deadened kind to whom patriotism is no more than gold-braided bigotry….

Read the whole thing here.

TT: Almanac

July 3, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture–and ourselves.”

Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

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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