Our story for December, Truman Capote's “Miriam” (1945), is disquietingly similar to our story from November, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Once again, we, as readers, are invited into an uncomfortable space inhabited by characters who may or may not be figments of the imagination. Once again, we become witnesses to the ways in
“A Capote reader” by Truman Capote “'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing… 'Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and he never looked back. “A Capote Reader” contains much of the author's published work by him: his
“Summer crossing“ by Truman Capote “Summer Crossing is Truman Capote's first novel and was written during the 1940s. An unrefined prototype of his later, famous writings by him, it was cast aside by Capote and thought to be lost for over 50 years, but was eventually published in 2005. ” Extracted from Wikipedia. See also: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/03/featuresreviews.guardianreview16 http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/universo/turbador/Truman/Capote/elpepicul/ 20051003elpepicul_1/Tes
Friday / “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote At the end of 1959 Truman Capote (1924-1984) read in the New York Times the news of the murder of the four members of a family of farmers in a remote Kansas town, at the hands of a couple of guys who made off with ridiculous loot. It was about