The “gay bitchiness” stems, I think, from his internalized homophobia. If you don’t really like yourself you’ll take it out on people who do like you!

Hey guys. Awfull is a corruption of the original awefull. So feeling awe. Rethink that section please.

Very interesting! Very perceptive! Mr Parr has described a genre that will only get bigger as time goes on. So many gems lying in used bookstores waiting to be collected...

I read "In Cold Blood" as a teenager. Watched Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal again two nights ago. Then I watched several programs about The Swans. He was always a remarkably gifted yet horribly miserable person.

This is one of the best "hidden gems" I've found on youtube. David and Nigel's passion for literature/Capote's work comes through like gangbusters... Will definitely be looking out for more Capote discussion! Muchas gracias.

Hey I saw this video, I found out my grandfather Vernon Hearn was one of the founders the other day, very cool

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Fascinating listening to David Mitchell!

A real interesting listen: thanks for posting.

I am a publisher and can tell you that days of "no returns" on signed copies are long over. Booksellers -- especially the big chain/s will return books in ANY condition (bent covers, smudges, etc) and expect full credit.

Excellent.

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Another insightful interview: thanks.

Wow, so inspirational, I hope that we can all aspire to be more like the characters in this book, always aspiring for greater things and never giving up even till death🙏🙏💸💸

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Insightful interview. Thanks.

David Gilmour?

James Wood deserves more exposure. He's a true literature lover and an honest critic.

Excellent. Thanks.

Narcissist

I'm halfway through, and already i have to second the above comment: This is really good. Thanks for this.

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Fascinating. Thanks.

I'm interested in reading

Thanks. Good stuff.

Sure ask a question with game in it I would have said seeing as he grew up in rape culture his Trudeau game was to promote Trudeau as teen spirit while a dicky lined Butts skirt

At 16 minutes the gay hairdresser whose lover leaves him for a woman. It happens all the time. Sometimes young men will dally with a wealthy older male lover but then realize they are, for the most part. straight. In fact, did this not happen to Capote himself? With the air conditioner repairman?

Why True Crime!?? Because it's an extremely popular genre on TV, streaming, podcasts ,ebooks, DT books, etc . There's a large, loyal and dedicated consumer base, always waiting for the *next* TRUE story. Fact really IS better than fiction!

Thomas King is a treasure, shout out to the Niitsitapi of Alberta.

Per Toronto99 Mark Bourrie is a child predator

Very interesting, thank you!

I've enjoyed Mr Wells' work and wonder how to gain access to his blog and newsletter. Thnx

Why does he keep talking over her? So refreshing listening to Alice who doesn't feel the need to pigeonhole everything and everyone. An exciting person and poet.

classic gay bitchiness. Perfectly said.

Insightful. Thsnks 👍

Near the 47 minute mark, you lost me when you got into politics. The Trump-as-Hitler argument is as intellectually lazy as you can get. Have you been paying attention to all the anti-Semitism on college campuses? It's Germany 90 years ago all over again. But, somehow, you'll rationalize it as Trump's fault. Your ilk usually does.

My dear intelligent and extremely insightful late father used to say that the pigs get to drink the best water. How true.

Would have been nice to see video…..staring at one photo is quite distracting

He was a perverted predator.

"SPIRITUAL WARFARE"....thats profound The universe ALWAYS makes you pay. Not immediate; nor is it at the hand of the persons whom you wronged necessarily But we ALL end up paying. And usually, its perportionate to what you put in. Thus for people like CAPOTE who spent their live dealing in this negative currency--ALMOST ALWAYS end up paying dearly

Thank you, Nigel and Meghan, for this intelligent discussion. How disappointing that it has attracted so few listeners. How interesting it would have been, if we had been able to have a look at some of the items Meghan has referred to. I have got a rare collection, about 2000 volumes in the UK, and your discussion touches on so many of my problems. I want to secure my collection's survival after my death and just can't find so far anywhere where it can go. As a start I have compiled a home-made catalogue and find it very useful just to have it on my PC. I refer to it often. So far it's just an alphabetical list by author and an alphabetical list by title. Another issue, while I am still alive, is classification of a collection where all the books are on the same topic. Dewey is irrelevant to such a collection. There must be many specialist libraries where the books are all about the same subject, eg surgery, mathematics, horticulture, photography, etc. How do librarians classify such collections? Thanks again. I will be coming back to this, I am sure.

It was a defense mechanism

Back then that bitchyness was a shield .. gays felt they had to be that way to protect themselves from others they felt they had to be just as cruel as the homophobes who were cruel to them .. the problem with that is that you become what you dispise

Many many queens of that Era were much like him .. especially new Yorkers.. It was almost a prerequisite ..I almost fell into that until someone told me no one likes a bitchy queen

Any gay male who stands up against the psychotic heterosexual supremacist is marked. Straight people with a sense of entitlement derived from a fictitious scripture and deity think that they have to right to tear down the talented homosexual.

Mister Gilmour, this is fascinating! Thank you for this insight.

"this story was gayer than I thought it was,"...no offense to anyone, but that was a funny line in this conversation.

Capote was right though on the title "Answered Prayers", showing the pain behind the shiny facade of his rich socialite friends. He should have been less lazy and blur the real persons behind his book characters.

Narrator is wrong regarding the Catholic Confession. In fact no clue whatsoever. It is a Sacrament not some kind of cheap psychological therapy.