TT: Here we go

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong will be officially “published” on Wednesday. That’s a formality, of course: it’s been available from online booksellers for a month and started showing up in bookstores three weeks ago. Over the long holiday weekend, Pops appeared on Michiko Kakutani’s top-10 list in the New York Times and was prominently featured in the the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Kansas City Star, the Los Angeles Times, and my own paper, The Wall Street Journal. For the past week, it’s been Amazon’s top-selling jazz book.
All this good news notwithstanding, December 2 is still a big day for me, not least because that’s when my coast-to-coast book tour gets going. I leave for Boston in the afternoon after making two radio appearances, and on Thursday night I’ll be speaking at the Boston Athenaeum. After that I’ll be in and out of New York City through December 18, when I wrap up my tour in New Orleans and head home to Smalltown, U.S.A., for the holidays.
In case you didn’t see it in this space the other day, here’s a complete and updated list of the personal appearances I’ll be making in December. Come out and see me!
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• BOSTON, DECEMBER 3: Boston Athenaeum, 10½ Beacon St., 6 p.m.
• NEW YORK, DECEMBER 7: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway, 7:30 p.m.
• LOS ANGELES, DECEMBER 8: Los Angeles Public Library, 630 W. Fifth St., 7 p.m.
• BALTIMORE, DECEMBER 9: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St., 6:30 p.m.
• PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 10: Philadelphia Free Library, 1901 Vine St., 7:30 p.m.
• CHICAGO, DECEMBER 15: Highland Park Library, 494 Laurel St., 7 p.m. (note the time change)
• ST. LOUIS, DECEMBER 16: Maryville University (with Left Bank Books), Buder Commons, 650 Maryville University Drive, 7 p.m. (note the address change)
• NEW ORLEANS, DECEMBER 17: Garden District Bookshop, 2727 Prytania St., 5:30 p.m.