A town without time gay talese

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A Town Without Time

In this exuberant anthology, journalist Talese Bartleby and Me brings together highlights from his six-decade career reporting on New York City. “New York is a city of things unnoticed,” declares Gay Talese at the beginning of A Town Without Time, the new collection of his journalistic work centered on New York.

Each piece reads like a gripping short story, rendered in vivid detail by an assured writer who helped transform reporting into a literary endeavor. His eclectic range of subjects captures the multitudes contained within the five boroughs, including the gutsy and sometimes reckless ironworkers who built the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the early s, a woman from a wealthy family who chose to live on the streets for reasons opaque to her loved ones and Talese, and a physician who blew up his Manhattan townhouse with himself inside to prevent his ex-wife from claiming the property in their divorce.

A Town Without Time

From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City. For instance, Talese investigates how the kidnapping of mobster Joe Bonanno rippled through his biological and crime families, and offers an intimate account of a playful studio session with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.

She likens her framework for digital Continue reading ». Hired Continue reading ». New Jersey-born Gay. Other selections focus on more well-known New Yorkers. The Six Loves of James I. Historian and novelist Russell The Palace winnows fact from fiction in this peppery, humane look at the complex love life of a regent known for his controversies and scandals.

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Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso of the novelistic New Journalism.” —Wall Street Journal “They fly in quietly—unnoticed, like the cats, the ants, the doorman with three bullets in his head, and most of the other. In this gripping history, classicist Mueller Race and the Making of the Mormon People uncovers the life and complicated legacy of Wakara, the Ute tribal leader who during the Continue reading ».