![]() This popularity, I argue, makes the story something of a queer oddity. In the half century since its original publication, the story has been reproduced in countless other forms, including anthologies, at least three television adaptations, numerous audio recordings, and even a live stage adaptation, and it remains a perennial favorite for school children and adults alike. "A Christmas Memory" was to have something of a second life, however, after being reprinted in Capote's collected stories in 1963, and it received more or less a popular imprimatur when it was released as a relatively expensive stand-alone volume in 1966, essentially within the same year popular acclaim would greet his most famous work, In Cold Blood. In the canon of American holiday fiction, perhaps no other piece is as fondly remembered by so many as among the most enduring as Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory." First published alongside advertisements for perfume and Cartier in the now defunct women's magazine Mademoiselle in December of 1956, the story initially seems to have made few waves. ![]()
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