In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Join us as we read Truman Capote's "remarkable, tensely exciting, moving, superbly written true account of the hideous slaughter of an ideal American family.

"That family," a neighbor summed it up, "represented everything people really value and respect, and that such a thing could happen to them--well, it's like being told there is no God.""

Truman Capote interviewed the Clutters' friends, neighbors, farmworkers and associates...and at length, their murderers, Dick Hickock and Percy Smith.

Capote's writing is venerated in part because he explores the "limited capacities these killers had, what mean and frightened lives they led, what hopeless yearnings and crippled, pathetic dreams," without excusing their brutality.

Excerpts taken from The New York Times Review of Books 1966 review written by Eliot Fremont-Smith. Photo of the Clutter family is uncredited.