Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Great Regulars: Still, it's not much of a legacy

for someone who was for a while probably the most famous writer in America--a couple of 50-year-old New Yorker articles, a sweep-up of assorted freelance chores for other magazines and a novel-like crime story (“Handcarved Coffins”) that has its moments but that also strains credulity more than once. In fact, the whole volume won't do much for Capote's already tarnished reputation as a truth-teller.

from Charles McGrath: The New York Times: Shades of Capote

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