Gay Talese
Gay Talese
Gay Taleseis an American author. As a writer for The New York Times and Esquire magazine in the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth7 February 1932
CityOcean City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
pain block frustration
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.
art writing journalism
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.
inspirational real team
The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.
soccer groups littles
Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
book years lasts
Thirteen years I took on this last book.
writing college example
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work
men magazines volume
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
I am a documentarian of what I do.
country poodles paradise
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
moving character quality
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
love fun communication
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun.
sports jobs games
Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.
impact news might
News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all
passion games people
Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.