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EDITOR's note. Can anyone provide the exact source? TIA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Welch" <rodney41@mindspring.com>
> On a minor note, there is, also, Nabokov's well-known appreciation of John
> Huston's 1953 "Beat the Devil," scripted by Huston and Capote.
>
> Rodney Welch
> Columbia, SC
>
> > From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> > Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:36:59 -0700
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Boyd replies re VN and Truman Capote
> >
> > Brian Boyd replies:
> > _Cold Blood (1966), novel by Truman Capote.
> > "The scene of the murder in Capote is great." (Interview with Hugh
Mulligan
> > for Associated Press, published Jan 1977, in e.g. "Ithaca Post," 30 Jan
> > 1977, p. 17.
> > BB also remembers but cannot identify another interiew in which VN was
asked
> > about the non-fiction novel, and specifically In Cold Blood, as a new
genre,
> > and dismissed the idea, saying that such claims had long been made by
> > novelists.
> > {19 Sept. 2002).
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> > To: <nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> >
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Walter Miale" <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
> >> To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:26 PM
> >> Subject: Query re VN and Truman Capote
> >>
> >>
> >>> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (5 >
> > lines) -------------------
> >>> From Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca> :
> >>>
> >>> Is it known whether VN ever expressed himself on the subject of Truman
> >>> Capote or his writings, and if so where did he do so, and what did he
> > say
> >>> or write?
> >
> > ---------------------------------
>
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Welch" <rodney41@mindspring.com>
> On a minor note, there is, also, Nabokov's well-known appreciation of John
> Huston's 1953 "Beat the Devil," scripted by Huston and Capote.
>
> Rodney Welch
> Columbia, SC
>
> > From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> > Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:36:59 -0700
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Boyd replies re VN and Truman Capote
> >
> > Brian Boyd replies:
> > _Cold Blood (1966), novel by Truman Capote.
> > "The scene of the murder in Capote is great." (Interview with Hugh
Mulligan
> > for Associated Press, published Jan 1977, in e.g. "Ithaca Post," 30 Jan
> > 1977, p. 17.
> > BB also remembers but cannot identify another interiew in which VN was
asked
> > about the non-fiction novel, and specifically In Cold Blood, as a new
genre,
> > and dismissed the idea, saying that such claims had long been made by
> > novelists.
> > {19 Sept. 2002).
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> > To: <nabokv-l@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> >
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Walter Miale" <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
> >> To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:26 PM
> >> Subject: Query re VN and Truman Capote
> >>
> >>
> >>> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (5 >
> > lines) -------------------
> >>> From Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca> :
> >>>
> >>> Is it known whether VN ever expressed himself on the subject of Truman
> >>> Capote or his writings, and if so where did he do so, and what did he
> > say
> >>> or write?
> >
> > ---------------------------------
>
>