Happy 80th to the Best Chronicler of New York at Night
Gay Talese is 80 today.
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Gay Talese Follows Crazed Russian Soprano Around World
Well, this is fun/weird! (And behind the paywall—though of course you subscribe, yes?)
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She Gets Too Thirsty For Whiskey at Eight
Gay Talese on Tony Bennett dueting with Lady Gaga in the New Yorker is blowing people's minds, but mostly from afar, as it's subscriber-only. Spoiler: she spends the recording session drinking whiskey.
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Gay Talese Finally Publishes Story Decades in the Making
It's a nicer kind of day when a man finally gets to write about one of his decades-long obsessions. In this case: Gay Talese and 206 E. 63rd Street (New Yorker, subscription only), the site of at least a dozen failed restaurants, and, for now, at least, the story of the address has an ending. The doomed building is being (inexplicably) purchased by a 77-year-old Buddhist monk, to be used as a monastery. (Presumably the former panhandler turned purveyor of meditation temples has met with fluidity along the way, as the purchase price of the building was $5.6 million.)
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How to Contextualize
The best part of this ABC News story about "Craigslist killer" Phil Markoff: Gay Talese is referred to as "an author who writes on the sex trade."
