Gay Talese

Gay Talese (/təˈlz/; born February 7, 1932) is an American author. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, he helped to define literary journalism. His most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.

Talese is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California each spring.

Biography

Gay Talese was born into a Roman Catholic Italian-American family in Ocean City, New Jersey, located just south of Atlantic City. His father, Joseph Talese, was a tailor who had immigrated to the United States in 1922 from Maida, a town in the province of Catanzaro in southern Italy. His mother, the former Catherine DePaolo, was a buyer for a Brooklyn department store (he is sometimes erroneously identified as being from Brooklyn).

At school as a child, he wore hand crafted suits from his father's shop which, he later reflected in his memoir Origins of a Nonfiction Writer (1996), caused him to appear to be older than his classmates. He recounted his early years in his book Unto the Sons.

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If It Ends Today

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Seems like the end is coming
Seems like the signs are lining up
As far as I can see
We're closer now than ever
This pain won't last forever
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There's hope on our horizon
Let it be the sound that's rising up
It's rising up
We could be the generation
To shout out to every nation
Love love is on His way
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Latest News for: Gay Talese

Gay Talese Keeps Notes, Especially on Everyone’s Clothes

New York Times 15 Jan 2025
In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits. “Clothes matter — especially when you get old,” he says ... .

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The Citizens' Voice 04 Dec 2024
Books, like socks, give themselves away behind holiday wrapping ... Choose well ... 94) ... Gay Talese’s New York” ($30) plays the usual favorites (“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”), but adds enough obscure pieces (on cats, failing restaurants) to make it worthwhile.

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The Atlantic 22 Nov 2024
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app 18 Nov 2024
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76 Of The Best Podcasts To Listen To Now

Vogue 22 Oct 2024
There’s also a decade’s worth of archival episodes to work your way through, featuring Michael Lewis, Gay Talese, Susan Orlean, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Evan Wright and Malcolm Gladwell, among others.Hear to Slay.

OBF: Too soon to know on Maye, but so far so good

Boston Herald 16 Oct 2024
Drake Maye has a pain. Somewhere, someplace, he’s sore ... Or not ... Gay Talese changed long-form journalism with his infamous 1966 “Esquire” profile entitled “Frank Sinatra Has A Cold.” We thank him for the inspiration above.

Everything About Rex Reed Begins With Movies

New York Observer 02 Oct 2024
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Mark Robinson Is a Poster

The Atlantic 20 Sep 2024
Mark Robinson is many things. the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor, and a bigot ... Sometimes they’re trolling ... [ David A ... This is the sort of thing that happens mostly in teen-sex comedies and Gay Talese books ... .

A Disappointing Three Women Adaptation Spotlights One Woman Too Many

Time 03 Sep 2024
 Taddeo sets the scene with an encounter between Gia and Gay Talese (James Naughton), a real-life titan of literary journalism whose 1981 tome on sex in the ’70s, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gia seeks ...

‘Three Women’ Author Lisa Taddeo’s Crash Course in Hollywood Chaos

The Hollywood Reporter 26 Aug 2024
The series opens on Shailene's character discussing research with an actor playing Gay Talese, who has written a lot about sex ... Was that Gay's suggestion to you in real life? Yes, that ...

I only read when I’m bored

Manila Bulletin 23 Aug 2024
Take, for example, Gay Talese, who tried and failed to get an interview with Frank Sinatra in Los Angeles, where he was sent from New York on an editorial mission in the 1960s, so, unwilling to miss ...

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Norman Mailer?

The Atlantic 24 Jul 2024
T he contemporary brief against Norman Mailer is long and sordid ... He would be the contrarian—as Gay Talese puts in the documentary, a figure who was “deliciously reckless, romantically reckless.” Mailer’s fundamental point ... It is inciting ... “Mr ... [ Read ... .

Still advertising for himself: ‘How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer’

People's World 19 Jul 2024
The Untold Story of life with Lennon. A new documentary is the latest member of this exclusive tattletale club ... From Adrian Curry ... Yikes! ... Besides relatives, commentators in Alive include Oliver Stone, Gay Talese, and other literati ... From Adrian Curry ... .

OC native Talese to join NJ Hall of Fame

Atlantic City 18 Jul 2024
Gay Talese, a journalist from Ocean City considered one of the writers who started the New Journalism movement in the 1960s and '70s, is one of 18 inductees to the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2024, the organization ... .

Ocean City native Gay Talese among 2024 New Jersey Hall of Fame inductees

Atlantic City 17 Jul 2024
Gay Talese, a journalist from Ocean City considered one of the writers who started the New Journalism movement in the 1960s and '70s, is one of 18 inductees to the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2024, the organization ... .

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