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Gay Talese
"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…
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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…
From Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.
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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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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Bestselling writer Gay Talese uses his own family history to tell the epic story of an Italian family over three generations.
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…
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…
Simplified Chinese edition of Thy Neighbor’s Wife
"Literary legend" (New York) Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many "nobodies" who make New York so fascinating, culminating with the strange and riveting story of Dr. Nicholas…
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…
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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Coversation held November 10, 2015 during a Sinatra symposium hosted by Hofstra University.
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Muhammad Ali: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon brings to life one of the best-known and most indelible figures of the 20th century, a three-time heavyweight…
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