...Jeff Solomon m Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury Jeff Solomon I n a reminiscence published in George Plimpton’s oral history of Tru­ man Capote, Diana Trilling recounts her and her husband Lionel’s first meeting with Capote, almost...

...Bruce Robbins Twentieth-Century Literature’s Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism, 2008 The winner of this year’s prize is Jeff Solomon’s “Capote and the Trill­ ings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury.”The judge is Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor...

... of conformity” (6). She builds her emphasis on uniformity atop a reading of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, from which she also derives her book’s title. Capote’s narrator describes Holly Golightly as a “real phony” (qtd. in Cheever 14), the sort of person whose behavior suggests that she...

... is a misnomer. They are dull because they are not something else, something that suits a different critical agenda” (289–90). He gives us instead a body 274 Review of fiction consisting of works by James Baldwin, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O’Connor, Philip Roth, Truman Capote...

... familiar ways of thinking about evidence, causality, and power. One might test these hypotheses by delving further into D’Agata’s draft, or into the work of nonfiction writers where, as has happened so often and so famously (Truman Capote, James Elroy, Erik Larson, Charles Bowden), crime and its...

... Ginsberg both published long poems produced by collaging found materials, Ashbery in “The Skaters,” Ginsberg in Witchita Vortex Sutra, composed orally and recorded on a tape machine bought for him by Dylan. Truman Capote launched the hybrid fact/fiction novel (In Cold Blood), Jean Rhys inaugurated...

... Capote and the Sitwell siblings, Wilson and Firbank were accused of immaturity: John McCormick wrote that these writers “share with Firbank a taste for excessive stylization, an adolescent desire to shock, a fondness for exotic paraphernalia, and an inadequately reasoned and therefore...