High Notes: Selected Writings

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Selections from six decades of the illustrious career of Gay Talese, one of the most important nonfiction writers of our time, with an introduction by Lee Gutkind.WhenGay Taleseleft theNew York Timesin1965to write forEsquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility & craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation & an interest inAmericaneveryday life—in taboo topics & overlooked truths. During a time when the nation seemed hardly to recognize itself,Talesewrote some of the most illuminating & influential magazine articles of all time, canonical works ofNew Journalismlike"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold"that elevated the form & brought to it a cachet & creativity formerly reserved forfiction.Taking its name fromTalese's2011New Yorkeraccount of a revealing studio session with avant-pop starLady Gaga& old-school croonerTony Bennett,...°°°GAY TALESEwas credited byTom Wolfewith the creation of an inventive form of nonfiction writing called“The New Journalism.”He spent his early career at theNew York Times, then moved toEsquire, where he produced some of the most celebrated magazine pieces ever written, including“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,”which Vanity Fair has called “the greatest literary-nonfiction story of the twentieth century.” His books includeThe Kingdom & the Power,Honor Thy Father,Thy Neighbor’s Wife,Unto the Sons, &The Voyeur’s Motel. Born inOcean City,New Jersey, in1932,Taleselives with his wife, Nan, inNew York City.
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Характеристики
- ФИО Автора
- Gay Talese
Lee Gutkind (introduction) - Язык
- Английский
- ISBN
- 9781632867476
- Дата выхода
- 2016