I continue my string of Duke-related public appearances on Tuesday with a visit to the Philadelphia Free Library, where I’ll be talking about and signing copies of my Duke Ellington biography. The address is 1901 Vine Street and the festivities start at 7:30 sharp.
For more information, go here.
I’ll also be talking about Duke this morning at eleven a.m. ET on “Radio Times,” broadcast over Philadelphia’s WHYY-FM.
For more information about this show, or to listen on line in streaming audio, go here.
UPDATE: My Radio Times interview has now been archived. You can listen to it by going here.
Archives for October 29, 2013
TT: Lookback
From 2003:
I wrote earlier today, apropos of The Turn of the Screw, that “all good adaptations” of pre-existing works of art are “fairly free.” Alas, John Huston’s film of The Maltese Falcon momentarily slipped my mind. It’s extremely faithful to Dashiell Hammett’s novel. In fact, it’s said that Huston’s secretary prepared the first draft of the script by simply going through the book and retyping it as dialogue. That can’t be right, but it’s not far wrong. I don’t know a more literally adapted film version of a well-known book, or a better one….
Read the whole thing here.
TT: Almanac
“I wondered whether life was actually worth recording in this detail. I preferred an artistic impression of the truth: this was how artists made the everyday beautiful.”
Wesley Stace, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer