Havanas in Camelot : personal essays /
Styron, William,1925-2006.
New York : Random House,
c2008.
Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of Styron's personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron's daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Styron's essays touch on the great themes of his fiction--racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust--but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects.--From amazon.com.
Havanas in Camelot -- A case of the great pox -- "I'll have to ask Indianapolis ..." -- Les amis du President -- Celebrating Capote -- Jimmy in the house (James Baldwin) -- Transcontinental with Tex (Terry Southern) -- A literary forefather (Mark Twain) -- Slavery's pain, Disney's gain -- Too late for conversion or prayer -- Moviegoer -- Fessing up -- Walking with Aquinnah -- "In vineyard haven."
Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of Styron's personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron's daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Styron's essays touch on the great themes of his fiction--racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust--but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects.--From amazon.com.
Styron, William, 1925-2006.