Comments on: Today In History: A Small New York Times Review http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/11/1269 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Timothy Kincaid http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/11/1269/comment-page-1#comment-5560 Timothy Kincaid Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:04:40 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/11/1269#comment-5560 And let's not forget that Truman Capote's <i>Other Voices, Other Rooms</i> was also published in January 1948. While the homosexual content was more hinted than stated, there is little doubt that the famous picture of the very young looking Capote reclining on a couch and looking seductively at the camera was a large part of his first novel's success. http://www.warholstars.org/warhol1/capote.jpg And, by the way, the Times liked this one. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-voices.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Perhaps it was Capote's talent for subtext that allowed the Times to look the other way and say, "it is not possible to be certain just what is going on in certain passages". And let’s not forget that Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms was also published in January 1948.

While the homosexual content was more hinted than stated, there is little doubt that the famous picture of the very young looking Capote reclining on a couch and looking seductively at the camera was a large part of his first novel’s success.

http://www.warholstars.org/warhol1/capote.jpg

And, by the way, the Times liked this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-voices.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Perhaps it was Capote’s talent for subtext that allowed the Times to look the other way and say, “it is not possible to be certain just what is going on in certain passages”.

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