William Gudenrath talks about Paul Hollister advising Truman Capote on paperweights. Oral history interview with William (Bill) Gudenrath, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:41.

William Gudenrath: And he had these endless stories. Ocean liners is something that never remotely interested me, so we didn’t really talk much about it. But I was with him sometimes when there were people who were interested in that, and he got all—he got as wound up about that and he was obviously as knowledgeable about that as he was about the great pianists. And there were other areas, too. Just a fascinating guy. He was a reno—he was a well-known paperweight expert for quite a few years. And one of the people who would call him for advice on buying paperweights was Truman Capote. I don’t know that you’re old enough to ever have seen Truman Capote on a talk show or something, but he had this very, very weird, very effeminate, very liquid kind of mannerism in this very strange voice, odd syntax and everything, and Paul would [snaps fingers] like that. [imitating voice] ‘Mr. Hollister you believe—’ you know and he’d go into this whole thing, cause Capote had asked him whether he should buy this one or that one. And so, paperweights was his thing, but then he got into millefiori, which is, you know what millefiori is, and then he was widely published on the subject of millefiori. And everybody thought he was a millefiori expert. And then the—you know, he got in, really into studio glass in general, and he was hugely, widely read, went to all the openings, you know, it was—he would just immerse himself in something but was never boorish, you know never bored. It was always fascinating to be around him.