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"Esquire Magazine" Gay Talese Hand Signed Note:
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Up for sale "Esquire Magazine" Gay Talese Hand Signed Note.
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Talese (/təˈliːz/; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer. As a
journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine
during the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's
most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra. Talese's first piece for the magazine Esquire – a
series of scenes in the city – appeared in a special New York issue during July
1960. When the Times newspaper unions had a work stoppage during
December 1962, Talese had plenty of time to watch rehearsals for a production
by Broadway director Joshua Logan for an Esquire profile. As
Carol Polsgrove indicates in her history of Esquire during the 1960s, it
was the kind of reporting he liked to do best: "just being there,
observing, waiting for the climactic moment when the mask would drop and true
character would reveal itself."
In 1964, Talese published The Bridge:
The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (1964), a
reporter-style, non-fiction depiction of the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City.
In 1965, he left The New York Times to write full-time for editor Harold Hayes
at Esquire. His 1966 Esquire article on Frank Sinatra,
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold", is one of
the most influential American magazine articles of all time, and a pioneering
example of New Journalism and creative nonfiction. With what some have called
a brilliant structure and pacing, the article focused not just on Sinatra
himself, but also on Talese's pursuit of his subject.[ Talese's celebrated Esquire
essay about Joe DiMaggio, "The Silent Season of a
Hero" – in part a meditation on the transient nature of fame – was also
published during 1966. When a number of Esquire essays were collected
into a book called Fame and Obscurity, Talese paid tribute in
its introduction to two writers he admired by citing "an aspiration on my
part to somehow bring to reportage the tone that Irwin Shaw
and John O'Hara
had brought to the short story." Honor Thy Father (1971) was made
into a feature movie. During 2008, The Library of America selected Talese's
1970 account of the Charles Manson murders, "Charlie Manson's
Home on the Range", for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of
American True Crime. In 2011, Talese won the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished
Journalism.
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