I've read some of the stories collected in Truman Capote's "The Complete Stories of Truman Capote", but not all of them. Most of them were pretty good. I was surprised at the repetition, how several of them featured a young boy with an older companion and a little dog. Of course a lot of them were very autobiographical. They were pretty good.
In the early 1960s, Detroit seemed poised on the brink of being a world famous city for all the right reasons. They were making a bid for the 1968 Olympics, and actually looked like they had a good shot; the Big 3 automakers were making profits in the billions, Motown was churning out the hits. What went so wrong to turn this prosperous, thriving city into the bankrupt mess it is today? Maraniss doesn't have all the answers, but he does know there were signs of Detroit's eventual hardships in the horizon even back in those prosperous, happy days. It was an interesting story.
Mark Z. Danielewski's story continues in "The Familiar Vol. 2". There's so much going on I can't even begin to sum it up in a concise way, honestly, *I* don't even know if I'm understanding it, but it's interesting, so I keep reading it :)
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