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Recovering Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

One of my sometime hobbies is bookbinding. Over the years I have gotten pretty good at it thanks to many courses at the San Francisco Center for the Book, Kevin Smith’s many volumes on non-adhesive book binding and lots of practice. Last year, one of the instructors at SFCB mentioned that paperback books published in the 1960s and 1970’s were often sewn together rather than … Continue reading Recovering Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

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Christmas Morning–Top Ten Favorite Reads of 2014

Merry Christmas to all!! Today is a deal for meals.  We’re having some neighbors over for brunch in a few hours.  I’ve already made red flannel hash and a couple of chocolate babkas, there’s a batch of muffin cup eggs still to go and some cleaning.  Our basement was flooded in The Great California Rain of 2014 a few weeks ago–we’re still cleaning it up. … Continue reading Christmas Morning–Top Ten Favorite Reads of 2014

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American Fiction, Book Review, Classic, Fiction, LGBT, Non-fiction

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

It must have taken some nerve to write a sympathetic portrayal of a gay man in 1948.  Even more nerve to do so in your first novel. Truman Capote had a lot of nerve. Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman  Capote’s first novel, can be read as a bildungsroman–the story of the artist as a young man–if we read the main character Joel Harrison Knox as autobiographical. … Continue reading Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

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American Fiction, Book Review, Classic, Fiction, LGBT, Novel

Harper Lee vs. Truman Capote: Round Two

I’ve been reading both Harper Lee and Truman Capote simultaneously this summer: To Kill a Mockingbird and Other Voices, Other Rooms.  It’s easy to argue that both books are based on the author’s childhoods; the authors who knew each other as children were life long friends.  Truman Capote is probably the basis for the character of Dill in Mockingbird; Harper Lee is certainly the basis for  Idabel … Continue reading Harper Lee vs. Truman Capote: Round Two

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American Fiction, Book Review, Classic, Fiction, LGBT

Harper Lee vs. Truman Capote

Earlier this year when I read a review of Truman Capote’s first novel, Other Voices Other Rooms which is about growing up in a small rural Southern town, I thought wouldn’t it be interesting to read  in tandem with Harper Lee’s novel about growing up in a small rural Southern town To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee and Truman Capote had what is probably the … Continue reading Harper Lee vs. Truman Capote

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