This post has been updated to include the appearance of James Baldwin in episode five.
Seven years after Ryan Murphy gave us the ultimate onscreen–off-screen catfight with Bette and Joan, the Feud anthology has finally returned with a vengeance, this time in the form of Capote vs. the Swans. Instead of 1960s Hollywood, the setting has moved to high-society New York of the 1970s, where Truman Capote, the celebrated author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, is firmly ensconced in this world of ladies who lunch. That is, until he publishes a scathing excerpt titled “La Côte Basque 1965,” from his forthcoming book, Answered Prayers, in the November 1975 issue of Esquire magazine. Capote doesn’t just dish on his darling lady friends, whom he dubbed “the Swans”; he spills his…
