Truman Capote was many things. A "real heterosexual guy" was not one of them.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Snerk.
I think that was his point though--if he teaches Truman Capote, of all people, SURELY he is not a bad person! Because only a good person would deign to teach a writer like THAT.
I would be willing to bet just about anything that the Capote work he teaches is In Cold Blood.
Hmm.... why? Is In Cold Blood somehow less gay? I'm confused by that comment.
Ok, just read Eleanor and Park. SO GOOD! But the ending made me want to cry. I mean, the whole book kind of did. But in a good way too.
I know. Me too. I wonder if the quasi ambiguity of the ending would drive my students batty?
I finished Please Ignore Vera Dietz (which everyone should read right now), and will be going back to Eleanor and Park later tonight. I needed some fluffy Project Runway in between.
Hmm.... why? Is In Cold Blood somehow less gay? I'm confused by that comment.
It just seems, of the Capote I've read, to be a more "manly" book, somehow. Like, I really couldn't see this guy teaching Breakfast at Tiffany's.
It also seems to be the most canonical -- for most people, if you've read one thing by Capote, it's probably In Cold Blood.
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I finished the new Skulduggery Pleasant book this morning.
That fucking book.
That's all I can say right now.