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	Gay Talese Home
		Gay Talese was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City.
		Gay Talese has just published an article in Newsweek about the children of the famous Mafia chieftan Joseph Bonanno.
		Gay Talese now focuses on his own life — the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and acclaim for his revelatory books.
	www.gaytalese.com (442 words)

	Gay Talese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gay Talese (born February 7, 1932) is an American author.
		Talese is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California each spring.
		Talese's 1966 Esquire Magazine article on Frank Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," is one of the most influential American magazine articles of all time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_Talese (305 words)

	pickett: Sunday Lunch with Gay Talese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Talese is a hero of mine -- among many other talents, he is spectacularly good at interviewing people -- and I've studied his work enough to know that he does not believe in making tapes or taking extensive notes.
		When Talese wants to make note of something, he writes it down on a small, thin piece of cardboard -- from the boards that come packed in boxed shirts -- that he has cut down to the size of large tongue depressors so that they fit, perfectly invisibly, in the breast pocket of his jacket.
		Talese has a real empathy, an admiration, really, for athletes -- he thinks of them "like gladiators in the coliseum" -- and has little patience for the view of them as lazy and overpaid.
	blogs.suntimes.com /pickett/2006/05/sunday_lunch_with_gay_talese.html (837 words)

	Gay Talese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Talese’s legendary profiles of celebrities such as Joe DiMaggio, Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson were a result of what he called “the fine art of hanging out.” He even lived with Patterson, a boxing heavyweight champion, at his training camp for some time.
		Talese moved on to other topics, and as I jotted down what he was saying, I had a sinking feeling that the interview would produce nothing of interest.
		Nan Talese’s imprint at Doubleday published the book and she was caught in the center of the melee.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/nyrm/Well/talese.htm (1031 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Writer's Life: Livres en anglais: Gay Talese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to Talese, "Writing is often like driving a truck at night without headlights, losing your way along the road, and spending a decade in a ditch." Reading his first substantially new publication since 1992's Unto the Sons is like being in the passenger seat of that truck while it's in motion.
		In a culture of success and celebrity, Gay Talese has always found his best subjects in failure and decline: Joe DiMaggio in his lonely eclipse; Joshua Logan in the midst of terrible depressions; Floyd Patterson struggling to express what it is to be knocked flat in front of a filled stadium.
		Talese's lapidary style and impeccable reporting standards have endured far better than the work of some of his more histrionic New Journalism contemporaries, but he has also known failures: long periods of struggle and silence, abandoned stories and books.
	www.amazon.fr /Writer-s-Life-Gay-Talese/dp/0679410961 (485 words)

	The writer's life, Gay Telse style
		The book and Talese were profiled in the New York Times last week (“Gay Talese’s New Memoir Emerges After 14 Tortured Years”) by Charles McGrath.
		Talese is a graduate of the University of Alabama, where I taught for 25 years.
		Talese went on in that conversation to describe his work methods, which include intensive concentration on his subjects and hours of taking and transcribing notes.
	www.jprof.com /reporting/gaytalese.html (441 words)

	NYO - Special News Story 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Talese, the writer son of a Calabrian-born tailor and a Mulberry Street–born boutique proprietress, and he has often appealed to that heritage in his work, both directly and implicitly.
		Talese wrote about his father’s tailoring in the book Unto the Sons in 1992, and after that he wrote about his mother’s dress shop in an essay that appeared in a 1996 book about nonfiction and was reprinted in The Gay Talese Reader in 2003.
		Talese, wrapped against the cold in a reversible rabbit coat, caught up with him, he was at a table where the bar widens into the dining room, having a gin martini.
	www.nyobserver.com /media_specialnewsstory5.asp (612 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters: Books: Gay Talese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Intensely curious" is how Gay Talese describes himself on his arrival in New York City as a young man in the mid-1950s, a provincial from a community of immigrants in New Jersey.
		Talese's interest in the lifestyle of alley cats, the inside knowledge of doormen and charwomen and taxi drivers, and the various overlooked architectural marvels throughout the city was underappreciated by his bosses at "The New York Times." As punishment for his lackluster efforts on the Albany political beat, Talese was shunted to the obituaries desk.
		Talese eliminates all fluff and nonsense generally written about celebrity and New York City, decisively zooming in on the truth of both, giftedly selecting details that stir, exciting our interest, and thereby awarding his readers an intimate and delightful read.
	www.amazon.ca /Gay-Talese-Reader-Portraits-Encounters/dp/0802776752 (1141 words)

	A Writer's Life by Gay Talese
		Talese's reputation is more that of a new journalist's new journalist, with the novelistic eye of a Truman Capote married to the reporting chops of a David Halberstam and with substantially less inclination than, oh, Norman Mailer to insert an alter-ego into the story.
		Talese got interested in the failure and how it must have felt, on so large a stage, and throughout this book he tries valiantly to sell various editors on the idea of sending him to China to find out.
		This isn't a portrait of Gay Talese at all.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/life/books/reviews/3873492.html (929 words)

	gay talese: profile of the artist as master reporter: Arts + Culture: mensvogue.com
		Some 20 years ago, the best-selling writer Gay Talese found himself in the waiting room of a renowned Upper East Side Freudian.
		Talese had been taking a decade or more to finish his books, and he was here to find out why.
		It's a book about what Talese frankly calls his "time-wasting opportunities." It's a book about the writer's woven-tapestry takes on this subject or that, tales that had never quite made the jump from Talese's file cabinets, a book about not writing a book that manages to entertain anyway.
	www.mensvogue.com /arts/articles/2006/08/21/talese (462 words)

	Truthdig - Gay Talese: The Truthdig Interview
		In the same way, Talese was one of a handful of journalists (along with Tom Wolfe and Truman Capote) who pioneered a form of journalism so influential that it remains the dominant template for most long-form nonfiction stories to this day.
		Talese’s reputation rests not only on the innovations he made in story-telling techniques but also on his counterintuitive choice of story subjects.
		Talese discussed his reluctance to be called one of the “Fathers of New Journalism”; America’s new conservative sexual landscape; and how he may have spawned the TV show “The Sopranos.”
	truthdig.com /interview/print/20060502_gay_talese_truthdig_interview (1756 words)

	Tavis Smiley . Archives . Gay Talese . April 28, 2006 \| PBS
		Talese: - Well, my father was born in Italy and was a tailor all his life and so were cousins of his and uncles of his.
		So Carol suggests to me that Gay Talese believes that the most important piece of this book, "A Writer's Life," is his covering of the civil rights movement, his work in Selma.
		Talese: I told you I was a son of an Italian tailor.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200604/20060428_talese.html (3675 words)

	Jacksonville News - Gay Talese visits JSU campus
		Gay Talese visited the campus of Jacksonville State University Tuesday and took some time out of his packed schedule to talk to students from the communications department about their plans for the future and insecurities in the present.
		Talese began his talk with the students by asking them what they want to be when they grow up.
		Talese, who is credited with co-founding “New Journalism” in the 1960s, began his journalism career in high school, where he wrote about high school sports for the Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger in New Jersey.
	www.jaxnews.com /news/2007/jn-localnews-0307-jbacchus-7c08q1242.htm (933 words)

	Gay Talese's Memoir A Writer’s Life - New York Magazine Book Review
		Talese’s working pattern is much like his father’s, with a streak of perfectionism and a highly idiosyncratic method, his notes taken on cut-up shirt cardboard, his manuscript pages pinned to Styrofoam with dressmaker’s pins, fluttering like so much clean laundry.
		Then Talese unspools that thread for a while, back to the building’s construction in 1907, through the failure of Nicola’s restaurant, (and also the failure of numerous other restaurants in the building) before he realizes that the building has defeated his attempts to make sense of it.
		Talese knows the routine is funny—he must—but he plays it absolutely deadpan, and prints the entire piece, which Brown (she was right) ultimately chose not to run.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /arts/books/reviews/16707/index.html (902 words)

	Gay Talese \| International Readings at Harbourfrontcentre
		Gay Talese brilliantly recounts the inner workings of his life as a writer in his aptly named memoir, A Writer’s Life.
		Talese was a reporter for The New York Times, and has written for Esquire, The New Yorker, and Harper’s.
		Talese is also the author of The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, and Unto the Sons.
	www.readings.org /?q=biographies/gay_talese (124 words)

	Lecture: Gay Talese \| Bullpen
		After waiting several hours, Talese was ushered into an office the size of a “basketball court.” Catledge, immaculately dressed in a crisp, blue, pin-stripped suit, sat behind his desk at the far end of the room, eyeing the young writer.
		Talese crafted portraits of “grass-cutters, tree-trimmers, locker room attendants and the football team.” He didn’t settle for the conventional QandA interview model, preferring instead to spend time “hanging out” with his subjects, absorbing the nuance and detail of their lives.
		Talese spent 10 years at The New York Times, but ultimately left to pursue a career in magazine writing, because he was hungry to delve more deeply into the lives of his subjects.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/bullpen/gay_talese/lecture (1763 words)

	The New York Review of Magazines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Besides learning that Talese is fascinated by losers, racism, penises and restaurants, I can’t say that reading “A Writer’s Life” brought me much closer to understanding its author.
		Talese explained that if he were writing about me, surely I would be offended if he exposed such personal information to the public.
		Gay Talese, who groaned and growled when I first approached him for an interview, was now graciously inviting me to join him, his wife and an old friend for an intimate dinner.
	www.nyrm.org /Well/talese2.htm (1306 words)

	Gay Talese to open English dept. new contemporary writers series
		Gay Talese -- best-sell- ing author, founding father of the New Journalism, and noted clothes-horse -- will be the first guest at Pitt's new Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, Sept. 21 at 8:15 p.m.
		Talese will read from his works and engage in dialogue with Lee Gutkind, fellow creative nonfictioneer and a Pitt professor of English.
		More substantively, Emanuel said she is looking forward to hearing Talese's take on recent cases at the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe and other publications of reporters inventing dialogue and even characters and incidents.
	www.pitt.edu /utimes/issues/31/091798/15.html (541 words)

	Gay Talese's New Memoir Emerges After 14 Tortured Years - New York Times
		GAY TALESE, whose memoir, "A Writer's Life," comes out next week from Alfred A. Knopf, is a little like one of those long-tailed comets that pass across the heavens every 10 or 12 years.
		Talese, the son of a tailor, carries himself like a papal guard and, now that his nudist phase is over, is the best-dressed writer in New York.
		Talese, who has compared writing both to passing a kidney stone and to "driving a truck at night without headlights, losing your way along the road and spending a decade in a ditch," is a painfully slow worker — a tinkerer and reviser, an obsessive typer and re-typer.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/04/18/books/23mcgr.html?ex=1303012800&en=a98df656993899ea&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (986 words)

	Gay Talese's Memoir A Writer’s Life - New York Magazine Book Review
		Talese has always been an ironist, a thoroughgoing relativist whose method is to look for another point of view, and having found it, undercut that one as well.
		Talese’s working pattern is much like his father’s, with a streak of perfectionism and a highly idiosyncratic method, his notes taken on cut-up shirt cardboard, his manuscript pages pinned to Styrofoam with dressmaker’s pins, fluttering like so much clean laundry.
		Talese knows the routine is funny—he must—but he plays it absolutely deadpan, and prints the entire piece, which Brown (she was right) ultimately chose not to run.
	nymag.com /arts/books/reviews/16707 (950 words)

	'A Writer's Life,' by Gay Talese - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times
		Gay Talese, left, with E. Doctorow and Norman Mailer at a gathering in support of Salman Rushdie held by the PEN writers' group, Feb. 22, 1989.
		Talese was now a publishing brand (with a brilliant Bible-o-matic titling template) who had earned enough money to buy a town house on East 61st Street and to slow his output way, way down.
		And her mother tells Talese that his animating premise — the presumed national swell of embarrassment and blame after Liu lost the game — was a figment of his imagination, that a day or two after the missed kick people stopped caring, and the Chinese president told her: "Don't worry.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/04/30/books/review/30andersen.html?ex=1304049600&en=294a79a7015c9dca&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1026 words)

	Boston’s Weekly Dig: Articles: The Gay Talese Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gay Talese is the godfather of New Journalism.
		The Gay Talese Reader is an attempt to get him back on the map by gathering some of his greater short pieces into one volume for the first time.
		Talese follows O'Toole on a drinking vacation to Ireland, where the actor tells a story about being flayed in class for drawing a horse pissing in a pasture: “Oh, those bitches!
	www.weeklydig.com /articles/the_gay_talese_reader (436 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Review :: Gay Talese - A Writer’s Life :: Alfred A. Knopf (Page 1)
		Talese is not the first author cursed by wretched timing and cruel coincidence; a friend of mine published the best book he ever wrote on Sept. 11, 2001.
		Talese once wrote a 10,000-word New Yorker profile on the Bobbitts that was mercifully euthanized by editor Tina Brown, who in this case served as a model of good taste and good sense.
		Talese is disarmingly candid about his struggles and false starts in recent years—only one book of new material, Unto the Sons (1992), has appeared since 1980.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=2920 (721 words)

	03/27/07, Annual Gay Talese Lecture Series: April 2 - Almanac, Vol. 53, No. 27
		Gay Talese was a reporter for The New York Times from 1956 to 1965.
		Talese is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California each spring.
		The annual Gay Talese Lecture Series was conceived of, and is supported by, the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in conjunction with the Kelly Writers House.
	www.upenn.edu /almanac/volumes/v53/n27/talese.html (251 words)

	mediabistro.com: Articles: So What Do You Do, Gay Talese?
		Talese, long a prominent journalist and writer, has made an art of the interview; in his pieces, incisive observations about a subject's personality, character, and setting often take on more weight than the questions and answers themselves.
		Talese, in the magazine profiles he authored, challenged the way in which information was gathered and presented, creating much more intimate portraits of famous figures than had ever been attempted before.
		He's now in his eminence-grise phase—The Gay Talese Reader, a thick collection of his best profiles, was published late last year—but, at 71, he still cuts a sharp figure, donning a vest, well-tailored jacket, and hat to emerge onto 61st Street and settle into a chauffered car for the trip across town.
	www.mediabistro.com /articles/cache/a1498.asp?pntvs=1& (1964 words)

	Kelly Writers House Fellows - Gay Talese
		Talese is the author of many books in a category of nonfiction writing that has sometimes been called "the literature of reality," sometimes "the New Journalism," sometimes "fact fiction." Among these works are Thy Neighbor's Wife (1980), Unto the Sons (1992), The Kingdom and the Power (1969), Honor Thy Father (1971), and The Overreachers (1965).
		For the Spring 1999 semester, Gay Talese will be the first Kelly Writers House Fellow, a project made possible by a generous grant from Paul Kelly.
		At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~whfellow/talese.html (352 words)

	felixsalmon.com: — Gay Talese in the New Yorker
		felixsalmon.com: — Gay Talese in the New Yorker
		Talese has revisited the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the most elegant suspension bridge in New York, 40-odd years after it was built.
		And Talese's a master of the comma: there are eight in that last sentence, but he uses an em-dash where 95% of people would use a comma.
	www.felixsalmon.com /000106.html (807 words)

	NOW Magazine - The Arts in Toronto, OCTOBER 19 - 25, 2006
		GAY TALESE talks and is interviewed by Sandra Martin at the Premiere Dance Theatre on Saturday (October 21), 2 pm.
		NEW YORK CITY - Gay Talese is incredulous when I tell him I went to Elaine's the night before, got a great table and even logged some face time chatting with the bristly Upper East Side doyenne immortalized not only in Woody Allen's Manhattan, but also in Talese's sprawling new book, A Writer's Life.
		Talese squirms on his leather couch as he gets caught up in the story, his eyes sparkle and he speaks to himself as much as me as he considers the life of yet another person most of us simply pass by.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2006-10-19/books_feature2.php (3022 words)

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