Teachout

In a recent Howard Kurtz column in the Washington Post about the disappearance of newspaper critics, Terry Teachout is quoted as maintaining that there will always be a place for literate, well-informed drama criticism about performances taking place in Chicago or L.A. or St. Louis.

Seeking Out Experts 2010

Terry Teachout is sad about both Stark and Westlake, but he thinks Westlake will be best remembered for the work he did as Stark.

Drowned Hopes 2009

In a recent Howard Kurtz column in the Washington Post about the disappearance of newspaper critics, Terry Teachout is quoted as maintaining that there will always be a place for literate, well-informed drama criticism about performances taking place in Chicago or L.A. or St. Louis.

April 2010 2010

In a recent Howard Kurtz column in the Washington Post about the disappearance of newspaper critics, Terry Teachout is quoted as maintaining that there will always be a place for literate, well-informed drama criticism about performances taking place in Chicago or L.A. or St. Louis.

The Reading Experience 2010

I've probably read many of the books to which Teachout is referring, but I don't recall any such general agreement that art is a way of seeking "truth."

Politics and Literature 2007

Well, that's what Terry Teachout is doing and he gives us some idea of what it involves: A week in the life of a biographer.

So you want to write a biography ... Frank Wilson 2006

: Terry Teachout is keeping a good directory of hurricane blogging.

Blogging in the wind « BuzzMachine 2005

I see that Terry Teachout is writing an essay on Edward Elgar, and "trying to make sense out of the peculiar fact that his music has never been popular outside England."

Japes and Counterpoint Jaime J. Weinman 2004

As Teachout putsfurther puts itin a post at his own blog, "blogging, valuable though it can be, is no substitute for the day-to-day attention of a newspaper whose editors seek out experts, hire them on a full-time basis, and give them enough space to cover their beats adequately."

The Reading Experience 2010

Terry Teachout has long been a proponent of web-based criticism of all kinds, so I don't take his comments as the defensive posturing of an endangered critical species so common among print-based critics but as an honest assessment of the limitations of the online medium and the niche-oriented role newspaper arts coverage mightcontinue toplay.

The Reading Experience 2010