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Truman Capote and New York City

Edward Hopper's New York Movie , 1938  My dad lent me Truman Capote's A Capote Reader in 2017. I was barely 18 years old, still consumed by a teenage angst, and - to be honest - not much of a reader. My interest in books and novels had waned significantly since starting Sixth Form, where the only few things I could find the time to focus on were video games and school assignments. A Capote Reader is a dauntingly large book, yet it presents itself in a very appealing way; it's a compendium of some of his earlier and finest short stories, travel sketches, novellas and essays, an assortment of magazine articles from a time long since past. Because of this, the stories are wonderfully easy to read and digest, the reader having the pleasure of being able to choose from the contents and read through a tale in a few hours at most. Only have 30 minutes available?  The Diamond Guitar is perfect. A whole rainy day to spend inside? You can flip to Breakfast at Tiffany's  and lo...