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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 Modern Yorker, Esquire,and other national publications.
Gay Talese was born in Ocean City, Fresh Jersey, and currently lives in Modern 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 learning Gay Talese's labor to my students at Yale for a decade, and all the reasons they love it. There are scenes described in such vivid detail you feel you're standing inside them; peripheral characters whom only Talese would protect 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 Study more here. & Gay Talese: WRITER AT WORKThis issue examines Gay Talese’s approach to composition. The dapper Talese, who turned 78 this year, is the author of “Honor Thy Father,” “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” and other classic works of creative nonfiction. Best-known for his dogged reporting—he wrote the 1966 story, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” which appeared in Esquire and has been described as “one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published,” without ever interviewing the title character—he is also a master of the miniature details that metamorphose characters and scenes into stories that are larger than their subjects. Michael Rosenwald, a staff penner for The Washington Post whose operate has also appeared in The Brand-new Yorker and Esquire, is the editor of a recent anthology, THE SILENT SEASON OF A HERO: THE SPORTS WRITING OF GAY TALESE, which will be published this month by Walker & Co. He had access to Talese’s extensive files—which contain every remark Talese has ever taken related to a published story—and the pages excerpted below also materialize in the anthology. Here, Rosenwald illuminates the process whereby the reporter’s hastily scribbled Authors“The most important nonfiction journalist of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters.” “He is a reporter, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist.” “The leading non-fiction writer in America.” “Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art.” “Talese’s . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to significant details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked.” “[Talese’s] legacy is twofold. First, he is the indefatigable whistleblower 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 write great literary nonfiction about the `ordinary’ . . . Talese . . . adv drills down through the mundane su about Gay TaleseGay Talese was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, on February 7th, 1932, to Italian immigrant parents. He attended the University of Alabama, and after graduation was hired as a copyboy at the New York Times. After a concise stint in the Army, Talese returned to the New York Times in 1956 and worked there as a reporter until 1965. Since then he has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Harper's Magazine. Gay Talese has written fourteen books. His earlier bestsellers deal with the history and influence of the New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power, recently reissued in trade paperback by Random House); the inside story of a Mafia family (Honor Thy Father); the changing moral standards of America between World War II and the era before AIDS (Thy Neighbor's Wife); a historical memoir about his family's immigration to America from Italy in the years preceding Society War II (Unto the Sons, also recently reissued by Random House); and other such books as The Bridge, about the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows span between Brooklyn and Staten Island; New York: A Serendipiter's Journey, a series |