NPR has asked readers to share holiday stories and traditions connected to Truman Capote's “A Christmas Memory,” according to NPR's post on the request, published October 30, 2026. The post is credited to NPR Staff and asks audience members to tell the network about their own customs tied to the story.

NPR's summary of the post asks whether readers have a tradition of reading the story every year around the holidays. It also asks whether readers make fruitcake the way Buddy and his friend do, a reference the summary makes without further explanation.

NPR's summary does not say how readers should send their stories, whether there is a deadline for submissions, or how the network plans to use the responses. The summary also gives no further explanation of the reasons for the request.

NPR's summary frames the request around personal holiday practices, with its examples focused on annual reading and holiday baking. The summary presents both examples as questions to readers rather than as instructions.

NPR's post names Truman Capote as the author of the story, but the summary does not include further information about the work, its publication history, any other works by the author, or the events it describes.

The summary describes the request as an invitation to readers, and it does not state how many responses NPR has received.

This report relied on NPR's summary of the post and did not review the full text of the request, so any details beyond the summary may appear in the complete post.

Sources: NPR: Have a story or tradition around Truman Capote's 'A Christmas Memory'? Tell us.