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

where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Welcome to a whole new season, friends,

and oh my, what a ride we're going to go on in the next two months. Truman Capote and his coterie, the ones you know about and maybe a few yet

to be connected in our investigation. What is a codery? It's a noun defined as a small group of people

with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people.

Truman Capote collects quite a coterie, all his life, male and female, famous and infamous,

friends and enemies too. It's a ride this season with the boy wonder turned burnout wonder, Truman Capote, which

will take a few different threads. There's a lot of ground to cover. Today, we're going to set

the stage. Before we begin this introduction into unpacking Capote's coterie, I do have some tremendous thanks to give.

A few names in our spyglass here.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Kathleen R and Annie P.

Can't tell you how grateful I am for your support over at patreon.com slash done and done.

Very much appreciated thanks to both of you. Linda and

Nick loved your emails. Thank you so, so much. Always so grateful for each of y'all,

for your support on Patreon, for coming back week after week, and we are here at episode 99. Can you believe it?

Let's get into this season. We are talking about Truman Capote through the next few weeks.

And not only the boy Wonder Truman, Wonderkind writer, and certainly his writing will play a part,

but you may be asking, hey, Alicia, Truman hangs out with a lot of ladies, what about the swans? Where are they in this story? Oh, we're going to meet them, all of Truman Capote's high society ladies. Babe Paley, Ceasy Guest, Slim Keith, Morella Annelli, Gloria Guinness, and Princess Lee

Radswell. These beautiful ladies in Truman's coterie are collected through his journey, but

there are so many other ladies in his life before these six we remember. And men, too. Truman Capote collects quite a group of

assorted characters, charmers, schemers, and big personalities, with Truman Capote always at that

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