Welcome to the Eric Matexis show with your host, Eric Matexis.

Hey there folks, have you had enough of politics?

I have.

I've had enough of a lot of things, but one thing I haven't had enough of is Truman Capote.

I love his writing.

His life was extraordinary, not necessarily in a good way.

I just discovered that there's a new book out called Capote's Women.

It is by Lawrence Lemur, the subtitle is a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song

for an era.

It's a beautiful book, and I'm looking forward to talking about it with its author.

Lawrence Lemur, welcome to the program.

Eric, thanks so much for having me.

Well it's a joy.

I have written three pretty long biographies myself, and I appreciate the genre.

And I think that there's something you can do in a biography that you can't do in any

other book.

You can bring a period of time alive.

It's an extraordinary thing.

The time in which Truman Capote lived.

The 60s in New York, we can't even begin to really imagine what world he lived in.

But actually you've begun and you've put it in a book.

You've written many books on many other fabulous people, most of them taller than Truman Capote,

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