Bio

MISS CAPOTE: NEW YORKER L'ENFANT TERRIBLE   

“Somerset Maugham called him “the hope of modern literature.”—Douglas McCollam, "In cold type," Columbia Journalism Review, November 1, 2012
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Capote had this confidence in herself—
like many decadent Delta Bourbons

William Faulkner, Carson McCullers—
Harper Lee, Walker Percy and himself
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These be Aristocrats of the Deep South—
going back to Antebellum times

Faulkner said his tour-de-force novel—
THE SOUND AND THE FURY wasn’t his
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“I began to write with no plan at all—
I wasn’t even writing a book”

“One day I seemed to shut a door—
Now I can finally write I said to myself”
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This is what happened with Capote—
he didn’t just have auditory recall

He had this gay Guardian Angel who—
dictated his novels & short stories
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Perhaps without him knowing it but—
simply accepting it as a dark gift

Beginning New Journalism by—
interviewing a dumb Hollywood thug
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A young moody pouty movie star—
handsome vain butchy Marlon Brando

Capote took the Stanislav Method—
turning the interview inside-out