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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Stranger than fiction |
 | | Covering the period in which Capote wrote his non-fiction masterpiece, In Cold Blood, about the brutal Kansas murder of the Clutter family, the movie Capote zooms in on the relationship between the celebrated writer and his main subject, Perry Smith, one of the two killers, illuminating the subtle, and sometimes deceitful, art of journalism. |
 | | He never took notes, and more than once in the film, you hear how he prides himself on having 93 or 94% recall. |
 | | It's my experience, and I hope to be proved wrong, that there was a moment in the 1960s and 70s in which novelists were very interested in rotating their crops, in going back and forth between fiction and non-fiction. |
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