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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The influential writer shares the events, personalities, places, and ideas that have shaped his life and work, from the civil rights struggle and changing American sexual mores to memorable people, both famous and not, whom he has profiled.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
American journalist Gay Talese chronicles his pioneering career, marked by a fascination with the world's hidden characters, followed by an all-new, in-depth study of New York doctor who blew up his Manhattan brownstone rather than sell it to pay a court-ordered sum in a divorce settlement.
"'New York is a city of things unnoticed,' a young reporter named Gay Talese wrote sixty years ago. He would spend the rest of his legendary career defying that...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book." The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret, that he had bought a motel...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"High Notes draws from six decades of Talese's work, from his long-form pieces for Esquire to his more autobiographical writings of the eighties and nineties to his twenty-first-century reflections on New York, New Yorkers, and the institution of which he is the longtime chronicler, the New York Times"--
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities, Wolfe documented everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight Ashbury to the Apollo Astronauts, and his ability to bridge cultural and class divides while tackling stories central...
