In my next “Sightings” column, to be published in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, I hail the reprinting by Princeton University Press of Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s Notes of a Pianist, which I use as an occasion to discuss some of my favorite non-literary artists who write–and, nowadays, blog–on the side.
What can we learn from “practitioner criticism” and the autobiographies of working artists? For the answer, pick up a copy of tomorrow’s Journal, where you’ll find my column in the “Pursuits” section.