16-foot coved ceilings—original from 1926—and espresso-colored floors with earth-toned couches and classic pieces, using a long wooden bench as a living room coffee table. She added custom-lit bookshelves in her living room to display her large...

Sui did a lot of homework for her new fall collection. She read up on furniture designer Charles Eames and on Truman Capote's iconic Black and White Ball, researched the wardrobe of Elizabeth Taylor, visited the home of the late sculptor and illustrator...

Eminent Outlaws tracks gay life in post-World War II America, as it was reflected in the stories and characters of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, and the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and Frank O'Hara - all young writers and...

SPITZNAGEL: This is your fourth book, right? ES: Before You're Not Doing It Right, you wrote two children's books and the essay collection My Custom Van. Is it fair to say you're getting comfortable with the sexy life of an author? MIB: It really is sexy.

Mine is that I write in bed. Big deal!, you are probably thinking. Mark Twain, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Truman Capote, and plenty of other writers did too. Vladimir Nabokov even kept index cards under his pillow in case he couldn’t sleep some night...

"You're worth it," I exhaled - and half believed it. None of this quelled my nerves as I tottered under the front canopy and down the hall once trod by the likes of Diana Vreeland, Truman Capote and various members of the Kennedy clan. But then - those...