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The envelope, please

My friend Terry Teachout announces the schedule and cast for his (and Paul Moravec’s) opera based on Maugham’s The Letter.

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I was told there’d be cat photos

At a book party last night I witnessed what I’m tempted to call the New York media version of an Abbott and Costello routine — except it was an actual conversation, and I was a participant. Here’s how it went.   Critic: [Upon introduction.] Maud Newton… Wasn’t there a novel called that this year? Me: I don’t think so. Critic: . . .

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