“Truman Capote, an Interview,” by Cathleen Medwick, was originally published in the December 1979 issue of Vogue. For more of ...

There are celebrities whose persona is as famous, if not more so, than their works, or what made them stars in the first ...

In New York, Truman Capote, the already famous novelist and party-going show ... purple-lipped and baggy-eyed in a narrow-brimmed felt hat, his lowered brow bulging with tension and fiercely ...

I was just doodling, and I was drawing that Eustace Tilley guy with the monocle and said, "I wonder what he'd look like if he was a Jew, so I just put a Hasidic hat and beard on him, and then ...

That would be a mere T-shirt’s toss from a gift shop peddling Mockingbird hats, tote bags ... closely resembled the young Truman Capote, who as a boy had spent summers at his cousin’s house ...

What “Maus” is, is it’s what I guess maybe Truman Capote would call a nonfiction ... so I just put a Hasidic hat and beard on him, and then before I knew it, he was kissing this West Indian ...

Truman Capote: If you want to be a writer, or any person of note, actually, you must realize the importance of that which is overheard the next table over. Great title, by the way. It's yours, darling ...

This column originated from Sol del Valle and has been translated for English readers. A couple of months ago, I had the ...