A Christmas Memory By Truman Capote

A Christmas Memory By Truman Capote'We set about choosing a tree. "It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can't steal the star."'Selected from across Truman Capote's writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to

interdisciplinary masterpiece finds faults with both extremes

this edition comprises Romeo and Juliet

Seierstad brings her acclaimed attention to detail to bear on the lives of those whom she encounters in With Their Backs to the World

high schoolers juggle classes

even good people might be capable of terrible deeds

'When will we learn about money

from early creation beliefs to classical hero narratives and the recurring theme of the afterlife

Ready or not

thousands sought his guidance on issues ranging from the nature of God to daily life

doe-eyed maidens beguile lovelorn men

making war is all she knows how to do …

called the Firebird