Terry Teachout Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Cheril and I are watching a Noël Coward double feature: "Brief Encounter" and "Blithe Spirit." I last reviewed "Blithe Spirit" at Baltimore's @EverymanTheatre, where it was revived in a manner magical in every way. https://t.co/CG5mIyXSm7

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@EsotericCD @johnlk_80 Didn't know until now, BTW, that the song was inspired by a passage from Saul Bellow's "Henderson, the Rain King"!

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From H.L. Mencken's "Notes on Democracy": "I have spoken hitherto of the possibility that democracy may be a self-limiting disease, like measles. It is, perhaps, something more: it is self-devouring."

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@AviWoolf Edwin O'Connor was VERY funny about that in "The Last Hurrah."

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@hulsey_ryan @EdwardD05569915 It's what Kingsley Amis calls an "obscenity-saver" in "Girl, 20."

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RT @FeldmanAdam: GREAT NEWS: Michael R. Jackson's brilliant musical A Strange Loop will officially open on Broadway this spring at the Lyce…

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@PulpLibrarian Douglass Wallop also wrote "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant," the novel on which the musical "Damn Yankees" is based.

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I'm watching "The Card," Ronald Neame's screen version of Arnold Bennett's novel. It's one of my favorite Alec Guinness movies (and the competition is stiff).

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@Rowrbazzle @aerosqxx The two best books I know about Astaire are Todd Decker's "Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz" and Arlene Croce's "Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book," but they're not biographies,

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I've always steered clear of the original screen version of "The Razor's Edge," one of my favorite Somerset Maugham novels, because I was sure Hollywood would foul it up—and boy, was I ever right, though Herbert Marshall and Clifton Webb are predictably fine.