Two Books of Interest

Who would’ve thought it: two Ink Spill appearances by Truman Capote in less than a month (see the March 15th post “Truman Capote and New Yorker Cartoons”). Portraits and Observations is due out from Random House April 23. From the publisher’s notes: Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most

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Capote and New Yorker Cartoons

   Reading the Holly Golightly piece (“Forever a Gamine at Tiffany’s”) in today’s New York Times revived a thought I had lodged in my mental “to do” file a few weeks ago when I had the pleasure of meeting Thurber biographer, Burton Bernstein.   Listening to  Mr. Bernstein expanding upon a passage from his biography concerning (the nearly blind) Thurber

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