Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir

Praise

“This marriage of Capote’s glimmering words with Attie’s harmonizing photographs is perfected by the younger Attie’s narrative, in this unparalleled addition to the Capote canon.” —Shelf Awareness 

“When it comes to illustrated works, one relatively slim volume stands out. Bridging the gap between essay collections and glossy coffee table tomes is Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir…A real gem of a find.” —One of the 8 best books in art, Christmas 2015, The Independent (UK) 

“Now, no matter where you live, you can get back to Capote’s Brooklyn with its eccentric rich old ladies, multi-ethnic sailors, also home to drunks, dead horses in the street, ‘brats’ that rollerskated and juvenile delinquent gangs because of a marvelous stash of photos of Capote and his Brooklyn world discovered by the son of the photographer David Attie which has been published along with the original essay he was commissioned to write about his ‘hood for Holiday Magazine in 1959, in Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir by Truman Capote.” —Patricia Zohn, The Huffington Post
“Capote’s meandering thinking and gorgeous prose preserve the waterfront architecture and eccentric locals he had come to love while his contemporaries praised Manhattan. The photos amp up the nostalgic beauty…The Brooklyn celebrated here is definitively, as the title promises, Capote’s personal Brooklyn, and it might seem a far cry from other documentations of the borough in the 1950s. For fans of the writer or devotees of New York history, the celebration of this place, where, ‘in the greenless grime-gray, oases do occur, splendid contradictions,’ will be a valuable memento.” —Publishers Weekly

“The long-lost photos…bring even more life to Capote’s sparkling description of the history and spirit of the neighborhood, with its eccentric characters, back alleys and fine houses (‘as elegant and other-era as formal calling cards’).”
—The New York Times, “Travel”