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The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between

experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of

the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the

truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that

won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for

his revelatory books about The New York Times (The Kingdom and

the Power), the Mafia (Honor Thy Father), the sex

industry (Thy Neighbor’s Wife), and, focusing on his own

family, the American immigrant experience (Unto the

Sons).

How has Talese found his subjects? What has stimulated, blocked, or

inspired his writing? Here are his amateur beginnings on his

college newspaper; his professional climb at The New York

Times; his desire to write on a larger canvas, which led him to

magazine writing at Esquire and then to books. We see his

involvement with issues of race from his student days in the Deep

South to a recent interracial wedding in Selma, Alabama, where he

once covered the fierce struggle for civil rights. Here are his

reflections on the changing American sexual mores he has written

about over the last fifty years, and a striking look at the

lives—and their meaning—of Lorena and John Bobbitt. He takes us

behind the scenes of his legendary profile of Frank Sinatra, his

writings about Joe DiMaggio and heavyweight champion Floyd

Patterson, and his interview with the head of a Mafia family.

But he is at his most poignant in talking about the ordinary men

and women whose stories led to his most memorable work. In

remarkable fashion, he traces the history of a single restaurant

location in New York, creating an ethnic mosaic of one restaurateur

after the other whose dreams were dashed while a successor’s were

born. And as he delves into the life of a young female Chinese

soccer player, we see his consuming interest in the world in its

latest manifestation.

In these and other recollections and stories, Talese gives us a

fascinating picture of both the serendipity and meticulousness

involved in getting a story. He makes clear that every one of us

represents a good one, if a writer has the curiosity to know it,

the diligence to pursue it, and the desire to get it right.

Candid, humorous, deeply impassioned—a dazzling book about the

nature of writing in one man’s life, and of writing itself.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Gay Talese was a reporter for The New York Times from

1956 to 1965. Since then he has written for the Times, Esquire,

The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and other national

publications. He is the author of eleven books. He lives with his

wife, Nan, in New York City

From the Hardcover edition.

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