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Since its first distribution in 1965, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood has held an one of a kind position in American abstract history. His claimed commitment to the class of reporting, which he calls a "non-fiction novel", was the first cognizant endeavor to utilize novelistic methods while also holding to a journalistic standard. Not only creating a new literary art form but creating the start of a new form of storytelling across multiple mediums. However, much of the accuracy of this particular art from, cold blood in particular is still highly controversial.

Regardless of the criticisms this novel continues to be used in writing, sociology, and criminology classes nationwide even to this day. In cold blood highlights narratives;