Truman Capote not to run the novella anyway. Its language and subject matter were still deemed "not suitable", and there was concern that Tiffany's, a major advertiser, would react negatively. An outraged Capote resold the novella to "Esquire" for its November, 1958 issue; by his own account, he told "Esquire" he would only be interested in doing so if Attie's original series of photos was included, but to his disappointment, the magazine ran just a single full-page image of Attie's (another was later used as the cover of at least one paperback edition of the novella). The novella was published by Random
Truman Capote if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality". The novelist Merle Miller issued a complaint about the picture at a publishing forum, and the photo of "Truman Remote" was satirized in the third issue of "Mad" (making Capote one of the first four celebrities to be spoofed in "Mad"). The humorist Max Shulman struck an identical pose for the dustjacket photo on his collection, "Max Shulman's Large Economy Size" (1948). The Broadway stage revue "New Faces" (and the subsequent film version) featured a skit in which Ronny Graham parodied Capote, deliberately copying his pose in the Halma photo.