Ep 091 - In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 16 December 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Truman Capote's Capote's "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood chronicles the mass murder of a family in rural Kansas by two runaway parolees. Inspired by a 300-word newspaper article, it basically created the "true crime" genre, making it the grandpappy to the zeitgeist-conquering podcast Serial. Often times chilling, moving, and morbidly fascinating, In Cold Blood dances back and forth over the line between being a compelling narrative and being exploitative. It seems worth asking what it means to "enjoy" a story like this. And what role does the author play in its telling?

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Pop, pop! Welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books that you've been
0:42.0	meaning to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. I think it's a pop cast this week.
0:46.5	Oh geez. I'm too sick for your puns. Craig is sick. It's the worst Christmas crud.
0:54.2	I got the Christmas crud. Who gave you that for Christmas? I don't I- Kids? I don't know.
1:03.0	Kids. Probably some teens. Oh God. Teens. Drinking Coke and text in all the time.
1:09.9	Surges back, you know they're on that. They don't know. They don't even Amazon is for old people.
1:15.2	Where are they getting their surge from? I just snapchat. Just snapchat and do some surr.
1:21.8	Yeah, look at this. Look at this picture of this weird old can that I found. Oh, it's gone.
1:27.5	Let's drink what's inside it. It's been snapchat it's gone.
1:31.1	They think that they're making new surge or that they discovered like a cache of surge that
1:37.0	that have been buried. Like those, yeah, like New Mexico desert for like 15 years.
1:42.8	Underneath all of the old copies of ET for the Atari, they found 12 cases of surge. Or maybe it's
1:51.2	just like the government has a surge reserve. Oh, yeah. Like Canada's oil.
1:55.6	maple syrup reserve. Oh, is that a thing? There's a strategic maple syrup reserve. I'm not making this up
2:02.1	because there were bandits who stole a bunch of maple syrup and they had to deploy the maple syrup
2:06.5	reserve. It wasn't didn't happen in home alone too. The sticky bit. Maple syrup bandits.
2:15.6	Speaking of Canada, this is a good segue. We got a couple of listener emails this week.
2:21.0	It's actually been like a week and a half since we recorded our last show.
2:27.2	So we got this one on December 3rd from Patrick. Thank you, Patrick.
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