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The colorful, boldly patterned living room in the author's Brooklyn Heights home is a window into history and the inner life of the writer

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THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

Like many, I entered The New Yorker through the cartoon door. The first cartoon I loved, and remember to this day, featured a New Yorker staple – two guys sitting in a bar – with one saying to the other: “I wish just once someone would say to me, ‘I…

Audrey Hepburn in a Givenchy dress wasn't Truman Capote's original vision for the movie adaptation of his novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s. He had wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the character Holly Golightly but Monroe’s advisor and acting coach said she shouldn’t play an escort, because it was too risqué.

Miles Davies, Frank Sinatra, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Dionne Warwick … the powerhouse producer made magical music with everyone who was anyone. We pay tribute to the genius of ‘the Dude’

Pioneering producer, film composer and music industry titan achieved a number of ‘firsts’ over a seven-decade career

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Want to get stuck in to the work of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s author? Here are some good ways in

Historian Peggy Gavan created Cats About Town with Dan Rimada, who runs an Instagram account about bodega cats

From Truman Capote’s problem with Audrey Hepburn in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ to Lois Duncan’s very personal offence over ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and Quentin Tarantino’s public beef with Oliver Stone, Annabel Nugent counts down 17 times writers hated adaptations of their work