The best lessons learned are not always the ones taught in a classroom. Sometimes the lessons that have the biggest impact in life happen elsewhere: in the living room of an Upper West Side apartment, where ten women sit around a table with ten copies of the same book. It's a Friday night, and I'm hanging out with my mother, my four closest friends, and their moms, talking about whether Truman Capote emotionally manipulated the serial killer he so famously...