“The scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.” This is a fictional telling of the socialite “Swans” of the 1950s and early 1960s that focuses mainly on Barbara “Babe” Paley, and her friendship with Truman Capote; however it includes many other famous women such as Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Pamela Churchill. These are the fabulously wealthy ladies who lunch, dress to impress, marry often and love to gossip. The era was […]
“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.”
Last year I made a grand plan to reread some of the books I read in high school and college. While I read several books for the second and third time (and in the instances of Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ender’s Game the 8th or 9th) I didn’t manage to read any of the books I read in AP English or my freshman lit course besides A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Great Gatsby. I guess I just hate the thought of missing out on the chance to read […]
A Whole Bunch of Truman Capote
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote I think I answered my questions about Truman Capote with this whirlwind look at most of his writing. I read In Cold Blood a few years back and I like it a lot. I think it’s really strong, but I think more than anything, it’s too rich a backstory, too big of a book, and the movie is so good that I couldn’t help but love it. I liked a lot of these stories in this collection. Some of them […]
In which I show once again that I’m probably better suited to popular fiction
I knew a Holly Golightly once. We met in an art class in high school, and went on to be friends in college, before I fell in love with someone else. We would spend time together after class: she taught me that putting my loofah in with the laundry extended its life and kept it cleaner. I accompanied her on a modeling gig, where the artist she posed for belittled me for pronouncing Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’s name without a proper French accent. She ended […]