If you’re a biographer, you’ll appreciate this: I spent most of Monday making sure that the manuscript of A Cluster of Sunlight: The Life of Louis Armstrong conforms to fair-use requirements for quotations from copyrighted sources. I ended up chopping some three thousand-odd words out of what I’d thought was the final draft, which (octuple arrgh) made the book better.
Alas, my eyes are now red and gritty from excessive busywork, and I don’t have it in me to finish the post I started writing about my recent art-related adventures, so you’ll have to do without it until tomorrow. In lieu of a nice juicy posting, kindly note that I posted all sorts of new stuff in the right-hand column over the weekend. But you already noticed that, right? No? Well, get cracking.
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
