DOGS BARK
Public People And Private Places
by Truman Capote
Capote thinks of himself as "a planet wanderer" — a man who keeps musing along no matter the consequences (Gide told him, remember the Arab proverb: "The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on") and these selections from his writings represent where he's been, "a prose map, a written geography of my life over the last three decades, more or less from 1942 to 1972.