107. Capote's Coterie | The Essential Swans: Colette
Done & Dunne
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we are going to turn our investigation back in time to 1948 when Truman Capote meets, and is profoundly influenced by, Colette, the grandest dame of French literature.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, |
| 0:23.0 | all things Dominic Dunn where nothing is linear and Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, all things Dominic Dunn where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you, investigators, for joining me today |
| 0:30.1 | in a bit of a switch up in our Capote's Cottery investigation. You are probably expecting the last of Truman Capote's |
| 0:39.7 | High Society swans, Lee Radzwell, and her story is incredible. But alas, I feel like Lee's story, |
| 0:47.7 | as it connects to Truman and really our entire arc of episodes in the month of April and May, Lee's story is going to land so much more effectively. |
| 0:59.0 | If I can take you back in time just a little bit. |
| 1:03.5 | Throughout the rest of this month of May on Done and Done, we are going to be double dipping, maybe triple dipping with episodes each week to tie the whole thing together because, friends, it really is all connected. |
| 1:18.7 | See, long before the high society swans, Truman Capote had a group of essential swans. |
| 1:27.3 | Quite a number of dynamic women and a few men too that help create |
| 1:33.6 | Truman's legend, his persona. These folks who know Truman before 1958 breakfast at Tiffany's in |
| 1:43.6 | cold blood in the 60s well before answered prayers. |
| 1:48.0 | These folks have seen Truman evolve from that small awkward boy from Alabama into the author |
| 1:56.2 | and infamous character he becomes. |
| 2:00.8 | Truman Capote will make it to New York City with his mother, |
| 2:04.2 | Lily May, who is now going by Nina in 1933. Nina has hooked herself up with Truman's stepfather, |
| 2:13.9 | Joe Capote. Throughout this time period, the 1933 time period when Truman goes to New York City, there is a super important essential swan, along with her famous grandmother, that we're going to be talking about this Wednesday. |
| 2:33.3 | That is when we're going to back up the |
| 2:35.4 | investigation into a bit of a backstory. Again, double triple dip in on done and done over this |
| 2:41.4 | month, but today, this is the story that I really want you to know about. This particular event |
| 2:48.8 | that we're talking about in our quick episode today happens in 1948. |
| 2:54.8 | And let's remember that Truman Capote has been writing his whole life. |
| 2:59.0 | He always knows he wants to be a writer from that very first typewriter that Harper Lee's father gives Truman at the tender age of six. Remember, Truman has all of his |
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