TT: The road goes on forever

I am, or was, in Winter Park, Florida, preparing to take up my duties as a visiting scholar-in-residence at the Winter Park Institute and part-time teacher of criticism at Rollins College. But the ongoing saga of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong is still going strong, so by the time most of you read these words, I’ll be flying north to Washington, D.C., where I’m speaking at Politics and Prose at seven p.m. tonight and making a string of radio and TV appearances later today and tomorrow morning. Among other things, I’m taping an interview with Brian Lamb of C-SPAN, about which more as soon as I know the air date.
I’ll be taking the train to New York after finishing up my last taping on Friday, and my plan is to spend the evening doing nothing whatsoever. On Saturday afternoon I’ll be speaking about Pops at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, about which more here. (Alas, you can’t come if you don’t already have a ticket–the event is sold out.) I fly back to Orlando that night, then scoop up Mrs. T and drive to Tampa on Sunday to see Jobsite Theatre‘s production of Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, one of my favorite plays. On Monday we return to Winter Park, where I teach my first class on Tuesday morning.
As if all that weren’t enough for one long weekend:
• Pops has just been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, about which more here.
• Pops debuts at #32 on the New York Times‘ nonfiction best-seller list for January 17.
Yeah, I know, I buried the lead. Sue me.