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Alexis Madrigal

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Alexis Madrigal is senior editor at The Atlantic.

"Why's this so good?" No. 1: Truman Capote keeps time with Marlon Brando

“Why’s this so good?” No. 1: Truman Capote keeps time with Marlon Brando

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…