A century after his birth, the novelist, screenwriter and playwright Truman Capote is having a moment. He is the pivotal character in the new Ryan Murphy period drama Feud: Capote vs the Swans, based on the bestselling Laurence Leamer book, Capote’s Women. None other than the ever-excellent Tom Hollander has been cast as Capote, in the true story of how the writer managed to offend and alienate a coterie of the chicest women in New York by revealing their closely guarded confidences in a roman-à-clef called ‘La Côte Basque’, published in Esquire in 1965.
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