As a special Thanksgiving gift, December’s Vanity Fair provides us with a previously unpublished Truman Capote piece that is thought was intended for inclusion in his unfinished novel, Answered Prayers. The chapter, titled “Yachts and Things”, can be found here. It’s not great, but it is fun and it was only a draft and I’ll read anything by Capote. There is an article that accompanies this detailing the evolution of Answered Prayers from teasers published by Esquire magazine to Truman’s ostracism by the New York elite.

Six years ago Vanity Fair published “Remembering Willa Cather,” an unfinished manuscript that Capote was working on at the Hollywood home of Joanne Carson (former wife of Johnny) when and where Truman died in 1984. It reads as though it is kind of contrived, but I’ve long had a thing for Willa Cather, with whom I have a six degrees of separation relationship.

Enjoy, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.