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The Gay Talese Reader
Portraits and Encounters
As a young reporter for The New York Times, in 1961 Gay Talese published his first novel, New York-A Serendipiter's Journey, a series of vignettes and essays that began, "New York is a city of things unnoticed. It is a urban area with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's Cathedral, and thousands of ants creeping on uppermost of the Empire State Building."
Attention to detail and observation of the unnoticed is the hallmark of Gay Talese's writing, and The Gay Talese Reader brings together the best of his essays and classic profiles. This collection opens with "New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed," and includes "Silent Season of a Hero" (about Joe DiMaggio), "Ali in Havana," and "Looking for Hemingway" as well as several other favorite pieces. It also features a previously unpublished article on the infamous case of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt, and concludes with the autobiographical pieces that are among Talese's finest writings. These works grant insight into the progression of a writer at the pinnacle of his craft.
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“The most important nonfiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters.”
–David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian
“He is a journalist, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
“The top non-fiction writer in America.”
–Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather
“Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art.”
–William Kennedy, writer of Ironweed and Roscoe
“Talese’s . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to important details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked.”
–Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
“[Talese’s] legacy is twofold. First, he is the indefatigable reporter whose books and articles are the product of extensive research. Second, he is the poet of the commonplace, the scribe who demonstrated that one could record great literary nonfiction about the `ordinary’ . . . Talese . . . slowly drills down through the mundane su
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Gay Talese is a bestselling author who has written fourteen books. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1956 to 1965, and since then he has written for the The New Yorker, Esquire,and other national publications.
Gay Talese was born in Ocean Capital, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. His groundbreaking article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was named the "best story Esquire ever published," and he was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called "The New Journalism."
| High Notes'High Notes' contains all the reasons I've been teaching Same-sex attracted Talese's work to my students at Yale for a decade, and all the reasons they cherish it. There are scenes described in such vivid detail you feel you're standing inside them; peripheral characters whom only Talese would care about and who are far more interesting than the ones in the center; details that no other scribe would notice because no one has Talese's eyes and Talese's ears. This is glorious journalism.—Anne Fadiman Learn more here. & Books by Gay TaleseThe Voyeur's Motel | by 3.27 avg rating — 4,492 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS | by 3.95 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 1980 — 61 editions Honor Thy Father | by 3.91 avg rating — 1,551 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters | by 4.34 avg rating — 895 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays | by 4.29 avg rating — 866 ratings — published 1965 — 28 editions Unto the Sons | by 4.16 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 1980 &m
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