Lloyd Grove was editor at large for The Daily Beast from May 2009 to July 2021. Formerly a contributor to New York magazine and a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio, he wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for The Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.

REASSESSMENT

Filmmaker Ebs Burnough’s new documentary “The Capote Tapes,” featuring interviews with friends, contemporaries, and Capote himself, seeks to cast the author in a new light.