Music for Chameleons
In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. “An incomparable stylist and entertainer . . . clean and cool . . . And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.