The Celebrity Profile, from Piaf to Kardashian

Writing about the young Marlon Brando, Truman Capote hoped to elevate what he called “the very lowest form of journalism” into sublime nonfiction prose. For nearly a century, his New Yorker colleagues have aspired to do the same.

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