Новинки Гэя Тализа

Gay Talese, dziennikarz i autor książek o życiu seksualnym Amerykanów, dostaje tajemniczy list. Właściciel motelu w Kolorado wyjawia w nim, że od lat podgląda życie intymne swoich gości i zapisuje wnioski z obserwacji. Podglądacz namawia Talese’a, żeby skorzystał z jego dzienników przy pisaniu kolejnej książki. Zaintrygowany dziennikarz leci do Kolorado, by potwierdzić prawdziwość tej niesłychanej historii. Po lekturze obszernych zapisków podglądacza stwierdza, że doskonale dokumentują one, jak zmieniały się seksualne zachowania Amerykanów. Jednak Talese nie upublicznia dzienników, ponieważ ich autor chce pozostać anonimowy. Dzisiaj, 35 lat później, Gerald Foos zdecydował się ujawnić swoją tożsamość, a Gay Talese napisał o nim fascynującą książkę, która pozwala czytelnikowi zajrzeć tam, gdzie nigdy nie miałby szans dotrzeć.

Ühel päeval võtab ajakirjanikuga ühendust mees, kes on pikka aega pidanud motelli. Nagu selgub, on tema hobiks olnud läbi lakke puuritud augu piiluda, mida teevad inimesed motellitubades. Kõige selle kohta on ta pidanud detailselt päevikut. See on üllatav, häiriv ja köitev lugemine. Gay Talese (snd 1932) on üks tuntumaid USA ajakirjanikke, nn pikkade lugude meister, kes on aastakümneid avaldanud olemuslugusid New York Timesis, New Yorkeris, Esquire’is jt tuntud väljaannetes.

Gay Talese is the father of American New Journalism, who transformed traditional reportage with his vivid scene-setting, sharp observation and rich storytelling. His 1966 piece for Esquire, one of the most celebrated magazine articles ever published, describes a morose Frank Sinatra silently nursing a glass of bourbon, struck down with a cold and unable to sing, like ?Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel ? only worse?. The other writings in this selection include a description of a meeting between two legends, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali; a brilliantly witty dissection of the offices of Vogue magazine; an account of travelling to Ireland with hellraiser Peter O'Toole; and a profile of fading baseball star Joe DiMaggio, which turns into a moving, immaculately-crafted meditation on celebrity.

As a young reporter for The New York Times, in 1961 Gay Talese published his first book, New York: A Serendipiter's Journey, a series of vignettes and essays that began, "New York is a city of things unnoticed". It is a city with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's Cathedral, and thousands of ants creeping on top of the Empire State Building.

Attention to detail and observation of the unnoticed is the hallmark of Gay Talese's writing, and The Gay Talese Reader brings together the best of his essays and classic profiles. This collection opens with "New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed" and includes "Silent Season of a Hero" (about Joe DiMaggio), "Ali in Havana" and "Looking for Hemingway" as well as several other favorite pieces. It also features a previously unpublished article on the infamous case of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt, and concludes with the autobiographical pieces that are among Talese's finest writings. These works give insight into the progression of a writer at the pinnacle of his craft.

Whether he is detailing the unseen and sometimes quirky world of New York City or profiling Blue Eyes in "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" Talese captures his subjects be they famous, infamous, or merely unusual in his own inimitable, elegant fashion. The essays and profiles collected in The Gay Talese Reader are works of art, each carefully crafted to create a portrait of an unforgettable individual, place or moment.

With a new preface and afterword by the author and drawings by Lili Rethi.

Towards the end of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge--linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island with New Jersey--was completed. It remains an engineering marvel almost forty years later--at 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension bridge in the United States and the sixth longest in the world. Gay Talese, then early in his career at the New York Times, closely followed the construction, and soon after the opening his book The Bridge appeared. Never before in paperback, it remains both a riveting human drama of politics and courage, and a demonstration of Talese's consummate skills as a reporter and storyteller. His memorable narrative--accompanied, as then, by the astonishingly beautiful working drawings of Lili Rethi--will now captivate a new generation of readers.

In this extraordinary work of insight and interviews, bestselling author Gay Talese shares with us the lives of those we don't know and those we might wish we did: Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio, Manhattan mobsters, Bowery bums, and many others -- fascinating men and women who define our country's spirit and lead us to an understanding of ourselves as a nation.

The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines.