Truman Capote, in his last literary project, decided to stitch together a novel out of bits of gossip. He never completed the work, which he called Answered Prayers, although some chapters were published in Esquire and later collected into a book after his death. Yet Capote talked and boasted about it incessantly, extracting a string of cash advances fr…
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