Gay Talese

High Notes

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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.When Gay Talese left the New York Times in 1965 to write for Esquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility and craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation and an interest in American everyday life--in taboo topics and overlooked truths. During a time when the nation seemed hardly to recognize itself, Talese wrote some of the most illuminating and influential magazine articles of all time, canonical works of New Journalism like «Frank Sinatra Has a Cold» that elevated the form and brought to it a cachet and creativity formerly reserved for fiction.Taking its name from Talese's 2011 New Yorker account of a revealing studio session with avant-pop star Lady Gaga and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, High Notes draws from six decades of Talese's work, from his long-form pieces for Esquire to his more autobiographical writings of the eighties and nineties to his twenty-first century reflections on New York, New Yorkers, and the institution of which he is the longtime chronicler, the New York Times. Each one of Talese's masterful books was an extension of an article collected here. High Notes will appeal to fans of those classics and to students of narrative nonfiction, a genre for which Talese has been so instrumental. The book includes an introduction by Creative Nonfiction founder Lee Gutkind.
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398 printed pages
Publication year
2017
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  • Ángel Sotohas quoted3 years ago
    Talese called it “the art of hanging out,” and it’s the foundation of his work. He doesn’t parachute into a situation; rather, he lives in it and also, instinctively, on the edges of it, making himself available when he senses opportunity, and scarce when his presence becomes a distraction
  • Ángel Sotohas quoted3 years ago
    Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint
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