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In Colder Blood: How Truman Capote Plagiarized his “Masterpiece” from Willa Cather

When Truman Capote saw the NY Times headline in November 1959 of the murders of the Clutter family of Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon in Holcomb, Kansas that would become his book In...

FROM BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S TO IN COLD BLOOD: WILLA CATHER, EDITH LEWIS, AND TRUMAN CAPOTE’S PERSONALITY DISORDERS

Upon Willa Cather’s passing her life companion Edith Lewis was dealing with something more than Truman Capote’s plagiarism of Willa’s works. Truman’s proclivity to abuse was going further over the...

WHOSE RELATIONSHIP WAS IT ANYWAY?

The distilled ardor, the astonished, silenced respect, hangs in the air as Willa Cather describes her “A Chance Meeting” with “’Caro’ of the Lettres à sa Nièce Caroline,” Flaubert’s niece whom...

CALCULATED POWER PLAY

After Posing As Prodigy and “Nascent Innocent Available Sexuality” On the Cover of His Plagiarized First Novel Aiming For Solicited Spectacle Fame, How Truman Capote Made Up Having Had A...

WHO REALLY IS HOLLY GOLIGHTLY?

Already ‘The Best Year of the Millennium’: From a 2024 New Year’s Eve Breakfast at Tiffany’s Cat Bar in Japan and Anderson Cooper’s Times Square Infectious Giggle, We Culminate on a Note...

Shopping in Someone Else’s Intellectual Property, They Can’t Replicate Spirit

The public didn't pick up on the predictable patterns of Truman Capote's malignant narcissism, just as they accept it as innocuous now, the rattlesnake again in the grass with Taylor...

Altering Perception for Fame: Truman Capote and Taylor Swift

Truman Capote himself said he had no content. He said that he was a liar. He showed his desperate need and intent to invade personal lives past boundaries and cause...

‘[ . . . ] As We Dream by the Fire': Breakfast at Tiffany's in Los Angeles

What emerges from Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Audrey Hepburn. What emerges is very real person in the here and now and what she did that stands out and apart from the movie...

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