Truman Capote: A Centenary Celebration

Featuring bestselling novelist John Burnham Schwartz and additional guests to be announced.

From his beautifully decadent Southern gothic debut Other Voices, Other Rooms to his sparkling New York novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s to his gripping, groundbreaking true crime account In Cold Blood, “the best documentary account of an American crime ever written” (The New York Review of Books), Truman Capote was an American original and a profoundly original prose stylist, a writer of the first order. He was also larger than life — from his legendary Black and White Ball masquerade parties to films like the iconic Breakfast at Tiffany’s starring Audrey Hepburn (1961), biopics like the Academy Award-winning Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005), and Ryan Murphy’s series Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans starring Tom Hollander and Naomi Watts (2024), Capote has long been the subject of fascination in American culture on and off the page.

In celebration of his centenary, hear bestselling novelist John Burnham Schwartz — author of Reservation Road and The Red Daughter — lead a reading and conversation with group of actors and writers — including Griffin Dunne and Sloane Crosley — who have been marked by Capote’s towering literary influence and spellbinding personal mythology.