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Gay Talese
From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.
"Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed…
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From Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.
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"Literary Legend" (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world's hidden characters.
In the concluding act of this "incomparable" (Air Mail) capstone book…
The provocative report on American sexuality that shocked the world when it was first published in 1981, Gay Talese’s chronicle of American permissiveness, before the age of AIDS, is also…
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At last employing 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, Talese shares the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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How has Gay Talese found his subjects? Here, Talese talks about first becoming absorbed in issues of race as a student in Alabama, about covering the civil rights struggle, and…
With drama and riveting detail, the author of Unto the Sons presents a candidly fascinating look at the making of the remarkable publishing dynasty that is The New York Times–all…
Bestselling writer Gay Talese uses his own family history to tell the epic story of an Italian family over three generations.
A selection of writings including a description of a meeting between two legends, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali; a dissection of the offices of Vogue magazine; an account of travelling…
Simplified Chinese edition of Thy Neighbor’s Wife
Gay Talese’s crystalline portrait of Frank Sinatra combined faithful fact with vivid storytelling in a triumph of New Journalism. It is now published alongside notes and correspondence from the author’s…
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Professor Gay Talese
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. Since…
The acclaimed author of Unto the Sons penetrates the silence and secrecy of the Mafia and offers an intimate look at a powerful–and vanishing–way of life. An invaluable document .–The…
Coversation held November 10, 2015 during a Sinatra symposium hosted by Hofstra University.
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