'Capote's Swan Dive,' Sam Kashner:
There was a memory that Truman liked to relate, about a husky boy from his childhood in Monroeville, Alabama, who spent an entire summer digging a hole in his backyard. “Why’re you doing that?” Truman had asked. “To get to China. See, the other side of this hole, that’s China.” Truman would later write, “Well, he never got to China; and maybe I’ll never finish Answered Prayers; but I keep on digging! All the best, T.C.”