15: Interview with Dunne Biographer Robert Hofler, Part One
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week, Alicia had a chance to talk to Robert Hofler, author of the 2017 Dunne biography Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts, for a far-ranging conversation about our man Nick. In what turned into the first half of the conversation, Robert illuminates the joys and contradictions of Dominick's life, and also shares some insights into Dunne's complicated friendship with Truman Capote and his relationship with his brother, John Gregory Dunne, and sister-in-law, Joan Didion.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.ukeslundery. Welcome to Dunn and Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey All Things Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:17.7 | Friends, I have a treat for you today. I was lucky enough to talk with Robert Hoffler, author of Money, Murder, and Dominic Dunn. Friends, I have a treat for you today. I was lucky enough to talk with Robert Hoffler, |
| 0:23.0 | author of Money, Murder, and Dominic Dunn, A Life in Several Acts. At the end of last week, |
| 0:29.6 | I'm bringing part one of the conversation to you today. He's written a whole biography on Dominic |
| 0:35.5 | Dunn, y'all. It's amazing. |
| 0:43.6 | Robert is a wonderful author, not only of Dunn's biography, but many other works as well. |
| 0:45.9 | It's time to talk about Dominic a little more. |
| 0:48.0 | Let's investigate. Music So excited to be talking to you. This is such a treat. |
| 1:10.6 | Well, I have to say I spent |
| 1:12.7 | the train ride back from Provincetown |
| 1:15.5 | rereading this book. I haven't read it since it was |
| 1:18.7 | first published a few years ago. |
| 1:21.7 | It is such a, oh God, I love it. |
| 1:24.8 | I love it so hard. I thought I knew a lot. And I read your book and I'm like, |
| 1:29.7 | whoa. Well, I was a little surprised when I was reading it because I had forgotten so much |
| 1:36.7 | and I and I'd forgotten how many people I interviewed because there were a lot of interviews there. |
| 1:43.4 | But one of the big things was that there's |
| 1:46.9 | a Brisco Center at the University of Texas at Austin. And they had all of Dominic Dunst, his diaries, his |
| 1:55.9 | notebooks, all of his scripts and the work he had done on them. So that was, I certainly couldn't have |
| 2:05.1 | written the same book, even though I interviewed over 200 people, to kind of get Dominic Dunn's |
| 2:11.5 | thoughts on things was very important. I'm so excited. We've never had a guest on Dun & Dun before, so welcome. |
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