Did he write anything worth reading ? Post some recs
>>24849527In cold blood is pretty well written, but I've only just started reading it.
>>24849527Breakfast At Tiffany's is superbly well-written for what it is. Norman Mailer said he couldn't think of one word he would change in it (or something like that). But it's a very brittle specific little work, just a one-off.
>>24849527A Christmas Memory
>Playboy: For many years, American letters seemed dominated by Southern writers, but, as you have said, “during the last ten years the large percentage of the more talented American writers are urban Jewish intellectuals.” How do you feel about this shift in ethnic, geographic and literary emphasis?Capote: Well, it has brought about the rise of what I call the Jewish Mafia in American letters. This is a clique of New York-oriented writers and critics who control much of the literary scene through the influence of the quarterlies and intellectual magazines. All these publications are Jewish-dominated and this particular coterie employs them to make or break writers by advancing or withholding attention. I don’t think there’s any conscious, sinister conspiracy on their part—just a determination to see that members of their particular clique rise to the top. Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow and Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer and Norman Mailer are all fine writers, but they’re not the only writers in the country, as the Jewish literary Mafia would have us believe.I could give you a list of excellent writers, such as John Knowles and Vance Bourjaily and James Purdy and Donald Windham and Reynolds Price and James Leo Herlihy and Calder Willingham and John Hawkes and William Goyen; the odds are you haven’t heard of most of them, for the simple reason that the Jewish Mafia has systematically frozen them out of the literary scene. Now, mind you, I’m not against any particular group adhering to its own literary values and advancing its own favored authors; such cliques have always existed in American letters. I only object when any one particular group—and it could just as well be Southern, or Roman Catholic, or Marxist, or vegetarian—gets a strangle hold on American criticism and squeezes out anybody who doesn’t conform to its own standards. It’s fine to write about specifically Jewish problems, and it often makes valid and exciting literature—but the people who have other messages to convey, other styles and other backgrounds should also be given a chance.Today, because of the predominance of the Jewish Mafia, they’re not being given that opportunity. This is something everyone in the literary world knows but never writes about.
>>24849527In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany's; and Other Voices, Other Rooms are all fantastic reads. Yes, I used semicolons because one title has a comma in it, come at me faggots.
>>24849607Both this and In Cold Blood are great. I would start with Breakfast at Tiffany's for a good laugh.
Breakfast at Tiffany's and In cold blood are goat , even for a homosexual. Didn't try reading anything else , idk , gay vibes definetly, but reafing those were like watching good true crime movie.
Answered Prayers is great fun.
>>24849884That makes it a readable sentance, genius mofo.
>>24849678why are faggot writers always so based?
>>24849609Honestly, this is his best story. >>24849884Other Voices, Other Rooms is underrated. Read this early this year as part of a Southern Gothic binge. Great read.
>>24849527I like the part where he said Mishima was looking for BWC while in America
