It's hard to pinpoint any book that has had as lasting of an impact on true crime as In Cold Blood. The bestselling work by Truman Capote has been ranked among the greatest books of all time by The ...

Excited to have finished a draft of his screenplay for his new film about Truman Capote, writer/director Douglas McGrath called independent film executive Bingham Ray to talk about it. Ray, who had ...

He could have chosen a different murder. At the time literary icon Truman Capote was looking for a crime to be the subject of his experimental new book, there was no shortage of headline-making family ...

But Capote was adamant that his own blend of “immaculately factual” reportage and fictional techniques represented the discovery of a new form, and this insistence tallied with Capote’s “quest to be ...

I Cold Blood, Truman Capote’s seminal nonfiction novel about a quadruple murder in 1959 Kansas, is one of those rare cultural touchstones that acquires new meanings as it rolls through time. When its ...

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New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny ...