Portraits and observations: the essays of Truman Capote

New Orleans

New York

Brooklyn

Hollywood

Haiti

To Europe

Ischia

Tangier

A ride through Spain

Fontana Vecchia

Style: and the Japanese

The muses are heard

The Duke in his domain

From Observations: Richard Avedon, John Huston, Charlie Chaplin, A gathering of swans, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau and André Gide, Mae West, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Ezra Pound, Somerset Maugham, Isak Dineson

A house on the heights

Lola

Jane Bowles

Extreme magic

Ghosts in sunlight: The filming of In cold blood

Greek paragraphs

A voice from a cloud

Cecil Beaton

The white rose

Self-portrait

Preface to The dogs bark

Elizabeth Taylor

Music for chameleons

Then it all came down

Handcarved coffins

A day's work

Dazzle

Hidden gardens

Hello, stranger

Derring-do

Nocturnal turnings

A beautiful child

Mr. Jones

A lamp in the window

Hospitality

Preface to Music for chameleons

Remembering Tennessee

Remembering Willa Cather.