Gay Talese
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican writer (born 1932)
Gaetano "Gay" Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, he helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of New Journalism.
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If you're a child of store owners, if you're brought up in a store, you learn good manners. You have to be genial, well-liked. You're not going to sell a customer if you're rude.
In an interview with David L. Ulin to - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin (October 15, 2010)
Sometimes it's good to be an outsider, especially as a journalist.
In an interview with David L. Ulin to - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin (October 15, 2010)
You should be proud of your profession because there's less lying in journalism than in any other profession.
In an interview with David L. Ulin to - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin (October 15, 2010)
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Gaetano "Gay" Talese is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, he helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
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