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Truman Capote, Lauren Bacall, Norman Mailer, Jay McInerney, George Plimpton, Colm Tóibín
This new documentary on the great American novelist is great fun. Maybe he wasn t a literary Messiah but he was a very naughty boy
As Graham Greene famously said, there is a splinter of ice in the heart of a writer. By the end of his short and colourful life, Truman Capote had several in his back. Most of which he put there himself.
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The Capote Tapes review - lush portrait of the louche writer
Entertaining documentary portraying a figure once described as the fairy Huck Finn
by Saskia BaronSaturday, 30 January 2021
Truman Capote in his pomp A candied tarantula is one of the many great descriptions of Truman Capote that light up this conventionally made but enjoyable profile of the Americanauthor most famous for
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and&nbs A candied tarantula is one of the many great descriptions of Truman Capote that light up this conventionally made but enjoyable profile of the Americanauthor most famous for
Mick Jagger he described as moving ‘like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire’.
Even Elizabeth Taylor, whom he got to know well and had profiled for a magazine, describing her eyes as ‘so liquid with life’, was defined as having ‘an extraordinary inferiority complex, and it’s difficult to get through’.
But then Truman Capote was not for nothing hailed as one of the sharpest writers of the 20th Century.
His 1958 novella, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (though he hated her in the role), while his 1966 true-crime novel, In Cold Blood, is to this day regarded as one of the greatest examples of the genre.
Marta Hallett Launches New Illustrated Publisher, G Editions By John Maher |
Publishing veteran Marta Hallett has founded G Editions, a new independent publisher of illustrated books.
G Editions will publish approximately 12 titles a year in the areas of art and photography, with a focus on fine art and photography monographs and author-centric gift titles. Hallett will serve as the publisher s CEO, with Gloria Blanco heading up the company s finance and business operations. Darcy Cohan will direct the publisher s marketing and publicity, and Alexandra Feinman will manage its digital marketing and promotions. The publisher s titles will be distributed by Two Rivers.