Monday, February 20, 2006
Chewing Capote's Cud
When they subsided, I broached again the factual basis of the story [In Cold Blood], the landscape, the weather, the people. Capote was masterfully evasive and slithered through my questions like a quicksilver snake. Finally, a new and horrified thought in my brain, I asked, "But this is true isn't it, Truman? I mean, this 'nonfiction novel' is nonfiction, isn't it?"
His smile was Cheshire sweet. "Wouldn't you like to know?" he purred.
from Steven Bach's Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gate(New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985)
