…said Perry, whose voice was both gentle and prim – a voice that, though soft, manufactured each word exactly, ejected it like a smoke ring issuing from a parson’s mouth.
A Weapon Struck
He had merely fallen face down across the bed, as though sleep were a weapon that had struck him from behind.
Exceptional Happenings
Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.
…Umph. That’s almost music. Truman Capote. From In Cold Blood.
Wouldn’t you call that a problem?
“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.