Reading: Truman Capote

In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 19, 1976 as part of the 7th Annual UND Writing Conference: “New Journalism and the Novel,” Truman Capote tells his favorite Mississippi story at the request of John Little, the unwritten story of a New York City stage manager\u27s romance involving the accidental killing of his date\u27s Great Dane and reads “A Christmas Memory.” Capote also responds to audience questions about his current work, the morality of In Cold Blood, criticism he has received, his sense of New Journalism, and writers he admires. Introduced by Laurel Reuter, Founding Director of the North Dakota Museum of Art