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10 Fan letters from famous authors, to famous authors

louigi — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:01:40 -0800

10 Fan letters from famous authors, to famous authors. William Gaddis to Don DeLillo, 1988 Norman Mailer to William Styron, 1953 Ray Bradbury to Robert Heinlein, 1976 Charles Dickens to George Eliot, 1858 Virginia Woolf to Olaf Stapledon, 1937 W.H. Auden to James Agee (or rather, his editors), 1944 Carson McCullers to Henry Miller, ca. 1942 James Joyce to Henrik Ibsen, 1901 George R.R. Martin to Stan Lee, 1964 William S. Burroughs to Truman Capote, 1970 (hate mail).

New chapter of "Answered Prayers" published

Egg Shen — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:46:26 -0800

A small piece of Truman Capote’s famously unfinished novel Answered Prayers has come to light. The six-page story, “Yachts and Things,” found among Capote’s papers in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library, is published in the December issue of Vanity Fair, out now in New York and nationally next week. The story will be available online in mid-November. The 1975 publication in Esquire of "La Côte Basque 1965" - a 13,000-word chapter from the work-in-progress - effectively destroyed Capote as a social entity and, by extension, as a writer. It also drove one of its subjects to suicide.

You choose instead to sell out a talent that is not yours to sell.

juv3nal — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:44:10 -0800

You will never have anything else. You will never write another sentence above the level of In Cold Blood. As a writer you are finished. William Burroughs’ Curse on Truman Capote (full text of the letter)

"...it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague."

taz — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:02:04 -0800

"Truman told Jack that he was frankly surprised that anyone who knew him well did not immediately recognize the inspiration behind Holly Golightly. And yet, everyone seems to agree that the true identity of Holly Golightly, nee Lula Mae Barnes, is a great mystery, and that her true inspiration can never be known. Well, that was yesterday, this is today. I’m here to clear that up. Spoiler: it was Truman’s mom. Mystery solved. Let’s break this down and find all the parallels between the two, if their virtually identical birth names were not enough." Lillie Mae Faulk – The Real Holly Golightly, from The Gloss's Shelved Dolls series. In other reflections on "Breakfast at Tiffany's," character, and identity, David Latta briefly discusses the real-life actresses Capote favored to portray Holly/Lula Mae: Marilyn Monroe for the original film (the actual casting of Hepburn, et al, "made me want to throw up ... It was high treachery on the part of the producers"), 30-year-old Mary Tyler Moore for the short-lived musical... and a young Jodie Foster for the proposed big screen remake. (Also from Latta, another short inquiry into the real Holly Golightly and the infamous unfinished Capote novel "Answered Prayers" that mined the lives and betrayed the friendships of most all the women who willingly or unwittingly may have loaned character elements and real-life plotlines to one of fiction and cinema's über Manic Pixie Dream Girls.)

"Odd Henderson was the meanest human creature in my experience!"

timsteil — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:54:21 -0800

Truman Capote's, The Thanksgiving Visitor . Originally published in McCall's Magazine, "The Thanksgiving Visitor" is the sequel to, "A Christmas Memory." [previously]

Capote profiles Brando

Trurl — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:21:40 -0800

"The Duke in His Domain" - a profile of Marlon Brando by Truman Capote, published in The New Yorker, November 9, 1957

Beat the Devil

Trurl — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:51:58 -0800

"Beat the Devil" went straight from box office flop to cult classic and has been called the first camp movie, although Bogart, who sank his own money into it, said, "Only phonies like it." It's a movie that was made up on the spot; Huston tore up the original screenplay on the first day of filming, flew the young Truman Capote to Ravallo, Italy, to crank out new scenes against a daily deadline and allowed his supporting stars, especially Robert Morley and Peter Lorre, to create dialogue for their own characters. (Capote spoke daily by telephone with his pet raven, and one day when the raven refused to answer he flew to Rome to console it, further delaying the production.) - Roger Ebert's Great Movies

"We are each other's best friend."

timsteil — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:47:52 -0800

In December 1966, ABC 's Stage 67 broadcast a teleplay of Truman Capote's beloved short story, "A Christmas Memory." It won both an Emmy, and Peabody, and was narrated by the author himself. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

666 t3h # of the beast

nola — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:42:36 -0800

A brilliant farce (or is it) The Antichrist Conspiracy, Get ready to dig deep into the world wide web of conspiracy. Learn about the Luciferians, the Freemasons, and the Metafilter-moderator-cabal who together with the dark lord of hell and Yonkers is trying to harvest your organs for Satan. I've already said to much. At any moment they'll be here to silence me.

In Slightly Warmer Blood.

grapefruitmoon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:04:12 -0800

In Cold Blood, 50 Years On : The Guardian takes a look at Holcomb, Kansas 50 years (to the day) after the crimes depicted in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

Capote^2

starman — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:13:33 -0800

Twice the budget, more stars vs. an Oscar-winning film a year old. The release of the Infamous trailer begs the question: is there really that big a market for Truman Capote-inspired films? Especially since both revolve round In Cold Blood? On the other hand, Infamous might at least still make a profit.

"There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote", says Norman Mailer

matteo — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:18:23 -0800

Truman Capote's Blood Work Two soon-to-be released films on Truman Capote's life, Capote and Have You Heard? begin as the novelist drops into rural Kansas to begin work on what became "In Cold Blood". More inside.

In Cold Blood.

kirkaracha — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:47:03 -0800

In Cold Blood. Forty-five years ago today, the bodies of four members of the Clutter family were discovered in Holcomb, Kansas. The killers made off with $40 and a transistor radio. This New York Times report inspired Truman Capote to write what he called the first "non-fiction" novel. There are other accounts of the murders, including one that says the book is not honest. In 1996, Capote and George Plimpton discussed creative journalism and the book in a long interview. (Plimpton's own biography of Capote details some of the liberties Capote took.) [All links SFW.]