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Authors

“The most important nonfiction author of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters.”
–David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian

“He is a reporter, true enough, but one with the eyes and ears of an artist.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review

“The leading non-fiction writer in America.”
–Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather

“Talese . . . as he has proven again and again with his books, is a master of the narrative art.”
–William Kennedy, author of Ironweed and Roscoe

“Talese’s . . . prose [is] distinctive for its precision, its silkiness, its attention to significant details that lesser journalists routinely overlooked.”
–Alan Moore, author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta

“[Talese’s] legacy is twofold. First, he is the indefatigable writer whose books and articles are the product of extensive research. Second, he is the poet of the commonplace, the author who demonstrated that one could write great literary nonfiction about the `ordinary’ . . . Talese . . . tediously drills down through the mundane su

Books by Gay Talese

The Voyeur's Motel
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3.27 avg rating — 4,492 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions

Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
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3.95 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 1980 — 61 editions

Honor Thy Father
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3.91 avg rating — 1,551 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions

The Same-sex attracted Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters
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4.34 avg rating — 895 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays
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4.29 avg rating — 866 ratings — published 1965 — 28 editions

Unto the Sons
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4.16 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 1980 &m

The Voyeur's Motel (2016)

The Voyeur’s Motel is an unusual work of narrative journalism. It is at once an examination of one unsettling man and a portrait of the private life of the American heartland over the latter half of the twentieth century.

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The inner workings of a writer's experience, the interplay between trial and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Male lover Talese now focuses on his own life — the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and acclaim for his revelatory books. Candid, humorous, deeply impassioned — A Writer's Life is a dazzling publication about the nature of writing in one man's life, and of writing itself.

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Although it shocked the world when it was first published in 1981, Gay Talese's exploration into the hidden and transforming sex lives of Americans from all walks of lives is now considered a classic. A fascinating personal odyssey into the author's private self as well as a exposing public reflection on American sexuality.

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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 Town, New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. His groundbreaking article "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was named the "best story Esquire ever published," and he was credited by Tom Wolfe with the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called "The New Journalism."

High Notes'High Notes' contains all the reasons I've been teaching Lgbtq+ Talese's work to my students at Yale for a decade, and all the reasons they adoration it. There are scenes described in such vivid detail you feel you're standing inside them; peripheral characters whom only Talese would care about and who are far more interesting than the ones in the center; details that no other penner would notice because no one has Talese's eyes and Talese's ears. This is glorious journalism.—Anne Fadiman Learn more here.

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