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The public didn't pick up on the predictable patterns of Truman Capote's malignant narcissism, just as they accept it as innocuous now, the rattlesnake again in the grass with Taylor Swift. But as Willa Cather's literary executor, her life-partner Edith Lewis knew she could show the radical difference: it was in the spirit of the works and the Being, and what that extraordinarily opens in the tremendous for all of us. It's now there to be found. It's what gay socialite and Willa Cather's close friend Stephen Tennant would write about Willa and that become his literary legacy, what Audrey Hepburn would audaciously risk herself in showing, what extraordinary scholar and biographer E. K. Brown would write in intensity as...

Truman Capote himself said he had no content. He said that he was a liar. He showed his desperate need and intent to invade personal lives past boundaries and cause as much harm as possible for fame. Truman Capote demonstrated malignant narcissism, his patterned personality disorder in every line written and every action and in his obsessive preening for constant attention. Why did no one believe him when he said what he was? As narcissists do, he assumed ownership of other people—and now we can see—their writing. Personality disorders distort perception in their own head and then manipulate that perception with others.Now we can look at the evidence at the beginning of Truman Capote’s career of manipulation of fame and...

It's the caper of the millennium and it's ON.

The way that Taylor Swift could make it appear true that she had had a relationship with John Mayer with never having been seen on a date, holding hands, kissing, in the back of a car together as with Jessica Simpson or Jennifer Aniston, or any of the photographs one might expect before it was considered true, and even while John was saying and showing something completely different, was that it was embedded in things that were true, and the false stuck in-between, just as Teodolinda Barolini describes of what is happening between Virgil, Dante, and the Demons in Inferno, Canto 21 in the Eighth Circle of Hell. 

Mayer fans have cried and walked beside John through Born & Raised when he had taken the space and time to deliver a soul-searching masterpiece (and still wanting to know what happened to Walt Grace on his Submarine Ride); they found the hope of love, freedom and promising new horizons in Paradise Valley with him (even visited Pine Creek Lodge in 2021 to help with a flooding), took up The Search for Everything, even when it meant alone with only the Poet to guide on an open unknown road, and found the wildest blue in Sob Rock, arriving at an inner realization of the pain and not-knowing making it all not only worthwhile, but supremely freeing and beautiful. Healing and sublime. In other words, they’ve lived their...