Capote made most of it up.

I mean, yeah the actual murders took place as they did.

But all the psychological and other stuff, it’s all bullshit, Capote did a couple interviews where he stated this.

On his authors note at the end of Under The Dome, Stephen King mentioned that the novel was one of those where his editor kept telling him to “keep the accelerator pressed to the floor.”

Hemingway is known for the sparseness of his prose. He sliced and sliced until he had the absolute bare minimum of words he felt were needed to tell the story.

The majority of the authors of what are considered the ‘classics’ of literature did NOT set to write them with some grand symbolism or meaning, they simply had an idea and then another one and those formed themselves into a story and they wrote it down.

Interviews, reading stories in newspapers and magazines, if you are a politician, there are your ‘official papers,’ which are usually ‘gifted’ to a university or if you’re a president, your library/presidential center.

Journals and diaries and moving into the future peoples social media accounts, youtube, personal websites, photo sharing websites.

Oh yeah a cloutchaser, how wonderful if there’s one thing the world doesn’t have NEARLY enough of now it’s ‘influencers’ and cloutchasers.

If I Never Make It Back.

Dude falls asleep, wakes up and finds himself near Cincinatti in the late 19th century. He loves baseball and ends up joining the Cincinatti Reds ( the first pro baseball team) and also introduces the hamburger to the concessions at the ballpark. there’s also a bit about a black cyclist and racism.

William Luther Pierce

Rush Limbaugh

Howard Stern

Evelyn Waugh

Danielle Steel

After rereading it and then reading Revival the stuff about the ‘obdurate past and harmonic of time’ to me is King’s occasional pulling back of the curtain and getting a glimpse of the Lovecraftian cthulhu whatevers that are pulling the levers and strings of what we perceive as reality.

It was interesting that one couldn’t just pull up stakes and run away to another part of the country and reinvent oneself with a new identity, that people did indeed do background checks.