Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey,

All Things Dominic Dunn where nothing is linear and everything is connected.

Thank you for joining me this week. We are back with Capote's Coterie.

And in this week of Drop Everything Now twists, we opened this season with Truman Capote as a small child in Monroeville, Alabama.

I want to get back to that kid.

We can achieve this by bringing out a few other essential swans over the coming episodes.

So excited to be here. So excited you're here. But before we

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Thank you again for joining me as we dip into these next few episodes in which we're going to reconnect into Truman Capote through his swans, all the kinds.

And this particular excerpt, I feel, really brings us back to Truman Capote to reset the stage a little bit this week.

This next bit is from a piece by Anthony Ramirez, published in the New York Times, September 30th, 2005.

The piece is titled Recalling Capote and the New York that let him glitter.

Long before the drinking, the parties, the gossip, and the fall.

In a city that no longer exists, a boy from the South with the outlandish name of Truman

Struckfuss Persons became the outlandish writer Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood,

of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and of his own demise in Café Society, answered prayers.

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