Tag: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
July 13, 2019 /

Oh, my! I feel—yes, definitely—it’s irritable vowel syndrome.

Don’t worry. It’s not contagious. I am increasingly persnickety; about the state of the world, modern discourse, and, hell’s bells, my favorite bakery is closed for renovation. Translation, I’m in a mood. To combat my discomposure I walk, write, read—generally in that order—and in between all have many cups of…

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May 17, 2016 /

Anderson Cooper’s Mama…at the spa…Gloria Vanderbilt on whom Capote is said to have modeled a certain character in his novella…

May 17, 2016 /

“Marilyn was always my first choice to play the girl, Holly Golightly.” Truman Capote

July 24, 2015 /

Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 17, Truman Capote

INTERVIEWER What did you first write? CAPOTE Short stories. And my more unswerving ambitions still revolve around this form. When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my…

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May 11, 2015 /

When I wrote scripts I had an agent who, when he was pleased with what I said, or did, would say, how Audrey of you! For that alone I loved him.

August 20, 2014 /

Absent breakfast at Tiffany’s, also lunch and dinner, also all solid foods for two days…

April 17, 2014 /

Wondering what to have for dinner? Well, don’t eat the ballet slippers. Here are a few recipes.

January 5, 2013 /

TRUMAN CAPOTE

The young Truman Capote of “Other Voices”. Beaton worried that success had changed Truman, and he wrote in his diary that “he looks like a tycoon, thickset, well-dressed, no longer the little gnome of Other Voices…. I secretly feel T. is in a bad state and may not last long.” …

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