In Cold Blood

Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood' Typewriter Sold For How Much?!

| Posted 04.25.2012

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By Gabe Habash for PWxyz: The personal Smith Corona typewriter of Truman Capote, and likely the one he used to write In Cold Blood, has been sold o...

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10 True Crime Books You Won't Be Able To Put Down

Peter Manso | Posted 09.04.2011

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Peter Manso

What is there to say about true-crime books? They're fun. They can be intellectually compelling, and, like the fictional variety from Hammett, Cain and that crowd, they're more often than not rooted in the far side of respectability or polite society.

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HuffPost Review: Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.16.2011

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Marshall Fine

Hey, Boo celebrates a novel, an imagination and, ultimately, a defining piece of Americana. It's always nice to see a movie that values literature and literacy -- and this is one of the better ones.

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How Books Kept Me From Burning in Hell

Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charlie Carillo

For all the complaining I've done about my Catholic school education, I'm thankful for at least one of their policies -- the required summer reading list.

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Connecticut Prison Inmates Reading True Crime And Other Violent Books

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARTFORD, Conn. — Inmates in Connecticut prisons have access to true crime books and works of fiction that depict murder and graphic violence, w...

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Another Kind Of Paper Trail: Books Might Hold Key To Connecticut Killings

New York Times | William Glaberson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The defense lawyers' suggestion that prison library books could have shaped the crime, or that knowing Mr. Hayes read them could turn jurors against h...

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Clutter Murders "In Cold Blood" Leave Lasting Impact In Kansas

Huffington Post/Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fifty years ago, on Nov. 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were brutally murdered at their rural farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas, a crime whic...

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Marines' Evidence Proves Murtha Is Right That US Troops "Killed Innocent Civilians In Cold Blood"...

Knight Ridder Newspapers | Drew Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Pentagon report on an incident in Haditha, Iraq, where U.S. Marines shot and killed more than a dozen Iraqi civilians last November will show that t...

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