Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
FICTION
Kate McCloud
More from “Answered Prayers”
December
1
1976
Truman Capote
Kate McCloud
Truman Capote
December
1
1976
View Article Pages
FICTION
Kate McCloud
More from “Answered Prayers”
December
1
1976
Truman Capote
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
ARTICLES
Kris Kristofferson Sings the Good-Life Blues
December
1976
By
Tom Burke
ARTICLES
Temple of the Airwaves
December
1976
By
Harry Crews
ARTICLES
Hooked on Hardware
December
1976
By
John Yount
FICTION
Sects
December
1976
By
Lucretia Cole
FEATURES
Bicentennial
December
1976
By
Robert Penn Warren
FEATURES
Live from Mars: New Light on the Kennedy Case
December
1976
By
Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
ARTICLES
Kris Kristofferson Sings the Good-Life Blues
December
1976
By
Tom Burke
ARTICLES
Temple of the Airwaves
December
1976
By
Harry Crews
ARTICLES
Hooked on Hardware
December
1976
By
John Yount
Truman Capote
PICTURED ESSAYS
What If... ...Truman Capote were sixteen again?
MARCH 1974
PROFILES
In Cold Comfort
JUNE 1966
By
Barbara Long
GALAS, LEVEES, SOIREES, HAPPENINGS
Why Your Parties Will Never Be as Good as Truman Capote’s
DECEMBER 1967
By
David Newman, Robert Benton
Fiction
The 1999 Esquire FICTION Competition Winner
Monster
JANUARY 2000
By
Cecilia Pinto, Keith Carter
FICTION
The Rider in the Red Coat
AUGUST 1943
By
EDWIN LANHAM
FICTION
The Stockade
DECEMBER 1934
By
HENRY MORTON ROBINSON
Fiction
FICTION
Turnabout is Fair
AUGUST 1934
By
D. H. LAWRENCE
FICTION
The Carpenter Goes Home
DECEMBER, 1944
By
FRANK G. LASKIER
FICTION
The Inn of the Insurable Thirst
AUGUST, 1942
By
GEORGE SLOCOMBE
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published