“Why’s this so good?” No. 1: Truman Capote keeps time with Marlon Brando By Alexis Madrigal• Why's This So Good?• June 27, 2011 Truman Capote’s profile of the depressive, incoherent, brilliant Marlon Brando is one of the greatest of all time. Published in 1957 in The New Yorker, it nominally takes place one evening in the Miyako Hotel in Kyoto. Read more