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Selections from six decades of the illustrious career of Gay Talese, one of the most important nonfiction writers of our time, with an introduction by Lee Gutkind.When Gay Talese left the New York Times in 1965 to write for Esquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility & craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation & an interest in American everyday life—in taboo topics & overlooked truths. During a time when the nation seemed hardly to recognize itself, Talese wrote some of the most illuminating & influential magazine articles of all time, canonical works of New Journalism like "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" that elevated the form & brought to it a cachet & creativity formerly reserved for fiction.Taking its name from Talese's 2011 New Yorker account of a revealing studio session with avant-pop star Lady Gaga & old-school crooner Tony Bennett,...°°° GAY TALESE was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called “The New Journalism.” He spent his early career at the New York Times, then moved to Esquire, where he produced some of the most celebrated magazine pieces ever writt

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Author

Gay Talese, Lee Gutkind (introduction)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing;Bloomsbury USA

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781632867476

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14