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Gaetano "Gay" Talese (/ t ə ˈ l iː z /; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Tom Wolfe , Joan Didion , and Hunter S. Thompson , one of the pioneers of New ...
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 City, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City.
Gay Talese’s “ Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener ” fit the bill perfectly. Talese’s conversational style — openhanded, easygoing, characterized by fact-rich yet perfectly ...
Gay Talese: I Wanted to Write About Nobodies. Growing up in a small town on the Jersey Shore in the late 1940s, I dreamed of someday working for a great newspaper. But I did not necessarily...
Gay Talese, 91, is a living legend of journalism. He wrote what is considered the greatest magazine story ever published, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," which appeared in the April 1966...
By Gay Talese. December 22, 2021. As one who was identified in the 1960s with the popularization of a literary genre known best as the New Journalism—an innovation of uncertain origin that appeared prominently in Esquire, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and other magazines, and was practiced by such writers as Norman Mailer and Lillian ...
In “Bartleby and Me,” Gay Talese recalls ink-stained colleagues, shares trade secrets and digs through the ruins of a truly explosive Manhattan marriage.
