In a somewhat eccentric 26 Nov 1969 interview with The Today Show's Hugh Downs, author James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, etc.) discusses violence in novels and on TV, reactions to his work, and the reason he left Hollywood, as well as professes an interesting view of cigarette smokers, comments on Norman Mailer's work, and praises Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Says Cain, "All books that I write almost drive me to suicide." Although he does not specify what manuscript he is working on, it might be The Institute (1976).
The reference to Cain's home in Hyattsville means Hyattsville, MD (not far from the University of Maryland–College Park, the home of Cain's typewriter and the setting of The Institute).
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