In an article written in 1966 for the New York Times, Eliot Fremont-Smith discusses the arguments that occurred in the literary world over Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, arguments that continue still today. He wrote of Capote: "The author is now worried that In Cold Blood will be taken as an example of a new literary form, the 'nonfiction novel'" (8). The debate over what constitutes a novel and what constitutes non-novel fiction. Fremont-Smith argues that the mixing of the two genres is irrelevant: It's a shame, because this excellent work raises questions and offers insights that are far more important and, God knows, more interesting than technical debates over the definition of a new or new genre. perhaps not a new literary form. (Book, 8). Fremont-Smith discusses “the dichotomy between the moral judgment of an act and the moral judgment of the person who commits it” (10). He argues that thinking about this is both "scary and difficult to keep in mind", but that people must keep the act in mind if they want to come to terms with the cruelty of the crime, the pain for the victims...