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Wouldn’t you call that a problem?

January 22, 2011 By Jordan

“So Jimmy Baldwin tells me the plot of his book, and he says to me: the writing’s going well, but I just want to make sure it’s not one of those problem novels. I said: Jimmy, your novel’s about a Negro homosexual who’s in love with a Jew — wouldn’t you call that a problem?”

…Philip Seymour Hoffman playing Truman Capote, in Capote, as referenced by Javed Jahangir in this overly self-indulgent but admirably precise article.

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Filed Under: Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: Beyond the Margins, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Truman Capote