After Other Voices was published, Truman came wafting into the office one day and told me that Vogue wanted him to go to Hollywood for two weeks to write the impressions of a young writer who had never before been there. They offered him two thousand and expenses for two weeks, and Truman demanded cash immediately—twenty one-hundred-dollar bills, which was probably more money than he’d ever seen at one time. Truman brought them in, rolled up with a rubber band […]

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