Glowing, Then Gossipy Talk: An Oral Fix on Truman Capote

Truman Capote , by George Plimpton. Doubleday, 498 pages, $35.

We have here the happy convergence of a great subject and a great technique, stage-managed by a master of the genre. It’s been 13 years since George Plimpton’s last foray (with Jean Stein) into “oral biography” immortalized Edie Sedgwick. Though fascinating all along the periphery, Read More