Rizzoli Bookstore reopens with windows designed by André Leon Talley
When Rizzoli Bookstore closed last year, there was much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments. Its space on 57th Street in Manhattan was iconic, with high ceilings, a beautiful chandelier,… Read more »
In Cold Blood is being adapted for TV
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote’s seminal 1966 book about the investigation into a quadruple murder in Kansas, is heading for the small screen sometime in the near future. Patrick Hipes… Read more »
A grammar of laziness
In his newest post for the New York Review of Books blog, Charles Simic muses on “Summertime.” He fears the loss of laziness as skill: “To my great regret, I… Read more »
In Cold Blood might not be as “immaculately factual” as Truman Capote would have had you believe
Documents indicate that two chapters have considerable discrepancies… Read more »
Truman Capote’s typewriter goes for a song
If you’d had a spare $8,000-odd lying around over the last few days, you could now be the proud owner of Truman Capote’s typewriter. It’s just sold on ebay for $8,281,… Read more »
Is tolerance bad for art?
John Waters, in this interview at The Financial Times, claims to be regretful about how gay culture has gone mainstream: I miss it … I’m for gay marriage. I don’t want to do it,… Read more »
SLIDE SHOW: Holiday Wish List: First Editions
Two years ago, Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy wrote about a few pricey holiday gifts that bibliophiles will swoon over, such as a first edition of Ulysses published in 1922… 3 / Read more »