Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"

[@seanbatiz6620]

This was an excellent listen session; THANK YOU!

[@Tracey-j2s]

I admire your lecture no one will ever know why

[@Edo9River]

Senseless violence always captures the imagination. And as a representative of American culture, this is a great distortion of our history which this novel purports to document to some extent.. there’s a blurring between history and art. My class of Japanese learners understandably have some confusion over what is artistic exaggeration and what is an honest examination of our culture.

[@personofinterest8731]

Best read I can remember, and then Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven.

[@nessunodorme3888]

That was an interesting look at a literary milestone. Slight correction: As the speaker mentioned, the book was published in 1966, not 1967 as in the description.

[@anonkarma2.027]

I’ve read some short stories compendium of Thurman Capote. Outstanding pen. Great fact literature 🙏🏻

[@Crumphorn]

Thurman?

[@anonkarma2.027]

@@Crumphorn autocorrect kicked in 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@personofinterest8731]

I remember cutting my true crime teeth on the true crine detective conics in the 50's.

[@Edo9River]

True Detective, is this mixing of actual detective work and the fiction known which makes fiction and which is reality?

[@BeerbohmBlair]

4666 Gibson Meadows

[@Tracey-j2s]

I studied the book why do you call it a novel non fiction a true account of such human action of suffering .

[@Edo9River]

Dr. H. H. Holmes?

[@keytyper4296]

Ugh, the genre name you are clumsily searching for is creative nonfiction.

[@aaronlaflin8266]

This guy is an awful public speaker. Yikes.

[@MultiSerafins]

I don't mean to be unkind, but I was surprised to read the speaker is a professor at Georgetown. He mispronounced "indemnity" several times, attributed the character of Mike Hammer to Dashiell Hammett, and throughout, summarized rather than analyzed.

[@kevinhagopian2072]

Yes. It's unusual for a department to intervene in a case like this, and that's a shame. He should start by watching more organized and engaged lecturers- a great lecture on a subject as intrinsically interesting as In Cold Blood could be truly exciting to watch, and inspiring to young students.

[@ern-cap]

I agree. He sounds like an idiot