In Cold Blood has stayed relevant for fifty-five years, and still frequently appears in the news. (Ironically, Capote criticized the film for focusing too much on the killers.) Since then, the book has been the subject of two other feature films–including the Academy Award-winning Capote in 2005–as well as three plays, two biographies, two fiction novels, another short documentary, a TV series, an opera, a graphic novel, a book-length critical treatment, dozens of dissertations, hundreds of academic papers and articles, this book, and who knows what else. The eponymous movie, which Capote consulted on and included scenes shot inside the Clutter house, was released to wide acclaim in 1967. The book still sells well, and it entered the canon long ago, as a staple of high school and university classes. In Cold Blood wasn’t just an unprecedented success at the time it has also enjoyed a long, remarkable afterlife as perhaps the most influential work of American nonfiction. The following is an excerpt from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood: Bookmarked, by Justin St.
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