Showing posts with label Capote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capote. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Beat from all that typing


American beat writer Jack Kerouac was born on this day in 1922.

"That's not writing, that's typing." -- Truman Capote, on Kerouac's famous novel, On The Road.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Since April 5, 2005, to be exact

Birthday of novelist and Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow, born 1915.


"Saul Bellow is a nothing writer. He doesn't exist." -- Truman Capote.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Rabbit, retch

This is the birthday of author John Updike, born in 1932.

"I hate him (Updike). Everything about him bores me." -- Truman Capote.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Beat from all that typing

American beat writer Jack Kerouac was born on this day in 1922.

"That's not writing, that's typing." -- Truman Capote, on Kerouac's famous novel, On The Road.