Truman Capote

Truman Capote in 1955
a photo by Richard Avedon
(La Vida en Fotografía)
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Several years ago my sister Jill gave me a  book by Truman Capote: The Muses are Heard. I hadn't read anything by him in original before. I was gained by the style, very matter of fact. I promised myself to look for others books by him. Later I bought a collection including Breakfast at Tiffany's. I had seen the movie with Audrey Hepburn, that was long, long time ago. So I started to read it, only I must say I became a very chaotic reader, starting more books in parallel. I watched then the movie where Capote was played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It was great and I'll come back to all of this. I knew many of his books from Romanian translations.

Well, yesterday I found on Facebook a post made by a Romanian journalist that I enjoy reading (Andrei Craciun): he was referring, among other books, Summer Crossing: Prima carte scrisa de Truman Capote si regasita dupa patruzeci de ani. O revelatie. Domnisoara Grady e una dintre cele mai seducatoare si mai tragice femei ale literaturii. Blestematul de Capote stia. (The first book written by Truman Capote, considered lost and rediscovered after forty years. A revelation. Miss Grady is one of the most seductive and tragic women in literature. That son of a gun Capote knew that). I found a great excerpt from the book on The New Yorker. It was published there in 2005.

• A Ride Through Spain
• The Tangier of Paul Bowles as viewed by Truman Capote
• The Duke in His Domain (Profile of Marlon Brando)
• La ciudad solitaria
• Povestea lui Harper Lee

(A Life in Books)

(Jill Rapaport)

Richard Avedon - Portraits of Power

The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC is hosting a Richard Avedon retrospective, with hundreds of photos created during several decades. Carter and Obama, the Dalai Lama and Beckett, the Chicago Seven and Jon Stewart, Reagan and Kissinger, and so many others.



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(Corcoran)