Gay Talese's Interviews
Novelist Spotlight #53: Journalistic legend Gay Talese on food, drink, tailored suits and the writing life
Gay Talese, one of the pioneers of the New Journalism (along with Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson, among others) joins the program to discuss his long and storied career. Now 90 years of age, he is hard at work on his latest book. We discuss: >> Writing about everyday people >> Publishing
Gay Talese: Sinatra's hair, hand jobs at work and voyeur troubles
Andrew and iconic new journalist Gay Talese settle an old beef involving Sinatra's hairpiece, then go deep into Talese's sexy years researching Thy Neighbor's Wife and the big headaches that came with his blockbuster New Yorker story, "The Voyeur's Motel."
Gay Talese, who wrote for Esquire in the 1960s and currently contributes to The New Yorker, is the author of several books. His latest is A Writer's Life. "I want to know how people did what they did. And I want to know how that compares with how I did what I did. That's my whole life. It's not really a life. It's a li
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