Welcome to Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, and it is a double dip for you this week. While we're here this week on Truman's Lost Treasures, I wanted to take out this very old, not done yet, to reveal to you all Truman Capote's secret art. Y'all, it's a story

if you don't know it. It is simply incredible. We're going to dip back into this Not Done

Yet, 108, to talk about Truman's snake bite kits. Let's investigate.

Let's investigate. I got a little bit here about Truman's secret.

I don't know if you know this about me.

I am an artist.

I'm a painter.

Love to paint.

I paint an acrylic and oil and gouache and watercolor and it is my little secret side hobby. I just love it. Truman

had a secret side art hobby as well and it is in those collector's boxes. Remember when we talked about

him going to Joanne's and just cutting up her art books. He's cutting up her art books

for a reason, and it is Truman's special secret art. He makes these collage boxes, which are

pretty, pretty incredible. Got a little bit of info about Truman's secret art.

Again, coming from George Plimpton's Truman Capote,

Truman's friends, admirers, distractors, all of that good stuff from Plimpton's collection.

Andreas Brown opens this particular chapter in which the reader is let in on Truman Capote's secret.

Andreas Brown recalls, the Gotham Book Mart is historically a writer's bookstore, and a significant number of writers have come here sooner or later.

This goes back to the 1920s and 30s when Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein,

James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and all the major writers of that era. This was their store.

Today, it is Norman Mailer, John Updike, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bello, and the New Generation.

Capote was an infrequent customer, but would occasionally buy a book from us, only rarely stop in and browse.

A year or so before his death, he called the bookshop one day and said, could I make an appointment to see you?

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