#truman capote
Today is the birthday of both Truman Capote and the Sufi poet Rumi, so I can’t help wondering how bacchanalian a party they could have co-hosted if they’d lived in the same century.
Happy 4th of July to all my American followers! Hope you have a fab day/night of celebrating Independence Day! In homage, here’s a few American Literature classics to brighten your day! ✨
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Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra attend Truman Capote’s infamous Black and White Ball, November 1966.
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Take me back to the time when we could touch and hold things, wrap our fingers all around it, compare it, feel it. A feeling far deeper than a dull quick sweeping glance off of a rectangular shaped screen.
Handwritten Letters have that ineffable gesture that no text messages can match.
Letters in Frame - Gossip Girl, Hereditary, Pulp Fiction, Breakfast At The Tiffany’s, Casablanca, Marriage Story, Zodiac, Shanghai Express, Moonrise Kingdom, Sweeney Todd
Holly Golightly: I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.
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Penelope Tree, photo by Richard Avedon. She was first spotted, age 17, in 1966 at Truman Capote’s legendary Black and White Ball. The following day she had already been commissioned by American Vogue to be in a shoot with mega photographer Richard Avedon. Diana Vreeland Cecil Beaton and Avedon all take credit for discovering her.
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Piano cover of Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s(performed by Audrey Hepburn)
