--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@...> wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:25 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@> wrote: > > > > > > Barry, > > > > > > In reference to your reviews, have ever considered what > > > Truman Capote meant when he described Kerouac's writing: > > > "That isn't writing at all, it's typing." > > > > No, but that's possibly because I don't recognize > > one of the names in your question. I and most lovers > > of literature recognize the name Kerouac, but who > > is this Truman guy you speak of? Wasn't he that guy > > who lived inside a big bubble that he thought was > > the whole universe? > > Actually Barry the one thing of Capote's I think you > might like a lot is his posthumous novel, Answered Prayers. > The main chapter is all about "polite" people~~the crème de > la crème of NY society~~all saying really shitty > things about each other, with gusto :) (They claimed they > didn't know he was going to include them, thinly disguised~~ > he claimed they should have since he was a writer.) That > chapter was published in the New Yorker, and Capote > immediately found himself shunned, possibly hastening > his death.
I admit to never having read anything by him, other than enough of a quick skim or two in a bookstore to enable me to realize that I find both his style and his choice of subject matter pedestrian. As for the article/book you mention, it doesn't sound like my cuppa tea. I have high standards, since when it comes to witty social barbs, my god is Oscar Wilde. He understood the distinction between being a queen and being a drama queen.
