Gay Talese

La despedida de una «leyenda literaria». (New York Magazine) Una mirada atrás a su carrera y una última historia para el futuro de una gran ciudad. «Un clásico moderno». El País «Un paseo por plac

«Un reportaje magnífico, escrito a lo largo de décadas, sobre un tipo que adquirió un motel en Denver para espiar a sus clientes mientras mantenían relaciones sexuales. Un reportaje de suspense donde

«Algunos de los reportajes más memorables del último medio siglo periodístico. Un clásico moderno.»BabeliaDesde que allá por los años sesenta Gay Talese irrumpiera en el mundo del periodismo para rev

From Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbors Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America, the letter began, I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book. The man went on to tell Talese a remarkable, shocking secret, so compelling that Talese travelled to Colorado to verify it in person. But because the letter-writer insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, certain the story would remain untold. Over the next thirty-five years, the man occasionally reached out to Talese to fill him in on the latest developments in his life, but he continued to insist on anonymity. Finally, after thirty-five years, hes ready to go public. In the tradition of Thy Neighbors Wife, Taleses landmark, best-selling exploration of the sexual revolution in America, this will be a provocative, eye-opening and much-talked-about book.

Gay Talese, pare del Nou Periodisme nord-americà, va transformar el gènere tradicional del reportatge amb descripcions vívides, una observació perspicaç i una rica tècnica narrativa. La crònica que v

"New York est la ville des choses quon ne remarque jamais, écrivait il y a près de soixante ans un jeune journaliste nommé Gay Talese. Il passera le reste de sa carrière à défier cette loi dinvisibil

The provocative classic work newly updatedAn intimate personal odyssey across Americas changing sexual landscapeWhen first published, Gay Taleses 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbors Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbiathrough the development of the porn industry, the rise of the "swinger" culture, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.

Beautifully documented . . . no less than a landmark in the field of writing and journalism.The NationFascinating . . . Seldom has anyone been so successful in making a newspaper come alive as a human institution.The New York TimesIn this century and the last, most of historys important news stories have been broken to a waiting nation by The New York Times. In The Kingdom and the Power, former Times correspondent and bestselling author Gay Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues at the daily, revealing the stories behind the personalities, rivalries, and scopes at the most influential paper in the world. In gripping detail, Talese examines the private and public lives of the famed Ochs family, along with their direct descendants, the Sulzbergers, and their hobnobbing with presidents, kings, ambassadors, and cabinet members; the vicious struggles for power and control at the paper; and the amazing story of how a bankrupt newspaper turned itself around and grew to Olympian heights. Regarded as a classic piece of journalism, The Kingdom and the Power is as gripping as a work of fiction and as relevant as todays headlines.Praise for The Kingdom and the PowerI know of no book about a great institution which is so detailed, so intensely personalized, or so dramatized as this volume about The New York Times.The Christian Science MonitorA serious and important account of one of the few genuinely powerful institutions in our society.The New LeaderA superb study of people and power.Womens Wear Daily

Talese mergulha fundo na intimidade de seus contemporâneos, traça um fascinante painel da mudança de costumes sexuais que varreu os Estados Unidos nas décadas de 1960 e 70 e recompõe a trama cerrada

From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso of the novelistic New Journalism. Wall Street JournalThey fly in quietlyunnoticed, like the cats, the ants, the doorman with three bullets in his head, and most of the other offbeat wonders in this town without time. from New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed, Taleses first Esquire story, 1960For over six decades, Gay Talese has told New York stories. They are the stories of daring bridge builders, disappearing gangsters, intrepid Vogue editors, unassuming doormen whove seen too much. They are set in the star-studded salons of George Plimptons apartment, in the tense newsroom of a still burgeoning New York Times, in an electric studio session with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga recording their debut.With the wit, elegance, and depth of insight that has long characterized his work, Taleses New York reporting showcases a master of the form at his finest, making intelligible the citys vibrant beating pulse, capturing the charming, the eccentric, and the overlooked. Whether prowling the night streets to discover the social hierarchy of alley cats, or uncovering the triumph and terror of building the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, or plunging into the hidden, sordid world of a recently blown-up apartment building, Talese excavates the city around him with a reporters eye and an artists flair, crafting delightful, profound, indelible portraits of the people who live there. Spanning the 1950s to today, the fourteen pieces in this compelling nonfiction collection are a time capsule of what New York once was and still isTalese proves time and time again that, even as the city changes, his view of it remains as timeless as ever. This landmark collection of New York stories reveals the city in all its glory and grit:Iconic New York Moments: Go inside a tense recording session with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, witness the terror and triumph of building the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and step into the star-studded salons of George Plimpton. A Master of the Form: Discover why Gay Talese is celebrated as a pioneer of New Journalism, with elegant, insightful prose that has shaped narrative nonfiction for decades. The Unseen City: From the secret social lives of alley cats to the untold stories of unassuming doormen, Talese reveals the hidden worlds and offbeat wonders thriving just beneath the surface. Literary Nonfiction: Explore a defining collection of essays that captures over sixty years of history, showcasing the wit and artistry that make Taleses reporting timeless.

"Literary Legend" (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career in literary nonfiction, marked by his fascination with the worlds hidden characters.In the concluding act of this "incomparable" (Air Mail) capstone book, Talese introduces readers to one final unforgettable story: the strange and riveting all new true crime tale of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Manhattan brownstoneand himselfrather than relinquish his claim to the American dream."New York is a city of things unnoticed," a young reporter named Gay Talese wrote sixty years ago. He would spend the rest of his legendary career defying that statement by celebrating the people most reporters overlooked, understanding that it was through these minor characters that the epic story of New York City history and America unfolded. Inspired by Herman Melvilles great short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Talese now revisits the unforgettable "nobodies" he has profiled in his celebrated careerfrom the New York Timess anonymous obituary writer to Frank Sinatras entourage. In the books final act, a remarkable piece of original reporting titled "Dr. Barthas Brownstone," Talese presents a new "Bartleby," an unknown doctor who made his mark on the city one summer day in 2006. Rising within the city of New York are about one million buildings. These include skyscrapers, apartment buildings, bodegas, schools, churches, and homeless shelters. Also spread through the city are more than 19,000 vacant lots, one of which suddenly appeared some years agoat 34 East 62nd Street, between Madison and Park Avenueswhen the unhappy owner of a brownstone at that address blew it up (with himself in it) rather than sell his cherished nineteenth-century high-stoop Neo-Grecian residence in order to pay the court-ordered sum of $4 million to the woman who had divorced him three years earlier. This man was a physician of sixty-six named Nicholas Bartha. On the morning of July 10, 2006, Dr. Bartha filled his building with gas that he had diverted from a pipe in the basement, and then he set off an explosion that reduced the fivestory premises into a fiery heap that would injure ten firefighters and five passersby and damage the interiors of thirteen apartments that stood to the west of the crumbled brownstone.Talese has been obsessed with Dr. Barthas story and spent the last seventeen years on a piece of investigative journalism, examining this single 20 x 100 foot New York City building lot, its serpentine past, and the unexpected triumphs and disasters encountered by its residents and ownersan unlikely cast featuring society wannabes, striving immigrants, Gilded Age powerbrokers, Russian financiers, and even a turncoat during the War of Independencejust as he has been obsessed with similar "nobodies" throughout his career. Concise, elegant, tragic, and whimsical, this masterful memoir Bartleby and Me is the valedictory work of a master journalist.This career-spanning work of literary nonfiction delivers:A Pioneer of New Journalism: Gay Talese reflects on the legendary career that helped define a new form of storytelling, revealing his fascination with the people most reporters overlooked. The Nobodies of New York: Revisit the unforgettable profiles that defined an era of narrative nonfiction, from the New York Timess anonymous obituary writer to Fran...

La despedida de una «leyenda literaria». (New York Magazine)Una mirada atrás a su carrera y una última historia para el futuro de una gran ciudad.«Un clásico moderno». El País«Un paseo por placer. [.

UNTO THE SONS is Gay Taleses stirring epic of his familys exodus from a tiny village in southern Italy, caught up in the tide of young men who crossed the Atlantic to America at the end of the 19th c

La obra monumental e imprescindible del Maestro de Periodistas, autor de Honrarás a tu padre, La mujer de tu prójimo y Retratos y encuentros.«La magnífica historia de una familia italiana que abarca

La polémica obra maestra del escritor y periodista Gay Talese sobre las costumbres sexuales en Estados Unidos, en una edición revisada y actualizada.La publicación en 1981 de La mujer de tu prójimo revoluciono la percepcion de las costumbres sexuales de los estadounidenses y, por extension, de Occidente. El ya clasico reportaje de Gay Talese aborda uno de los grandes temas de nuestro tiempo de forma magistral, sorprendente y reveladora.Talese se embarco en una excepcional investigacion de la revolucion sexual del siglo XX, en la que podemos oir las voces de sus grandes protagonistas: desde partidarios de la censura y ciudadanos escandalizados, pasando por los propietarios de salones de masajes, hasta el fundador de la revista Playboy, Hugh Hefner. Historias de primera mano en las que el autor compromete su intimidad en mas de una ocasion con el fin de explotar el cambiante paisaje sexual y moral en los años posteriores a la revolucion de los años setenta. Fascinante y polemico, La mujer de tu projimo cambio la manera en que nos veiamos a nosotros mismo y a los demas.Reseñas: Su especial talento reside en haber sabido hacer periodismo de todo aquello de lo que suelen huir los otros reporteros: del hombre comun, del desconocido, del perdedor o de los que estan lejos de los focos y el exito y, a traves de ellos, ofrecer un retrato fidedigno del ser humano y de sus obsesiones. Barbara Celis, BabeliaLeer a Talese es darse cuenta de que el nuevo periodismo es el mas viejo, el de siempre, el que nunca morira.Que Leer

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 OToole; and a profile of fading baseball star Joe DiMaggio, which turns into a moving, immaculately-crafted meditation on celebrity.

El Maestro del Periodismo narra una auténtica epopeya humana: la crónica de la construcción de un puente convertida en un nuevo clásico.«Talese cuenta historias cálidas, divertidas y trágicas sobre h

El mejor Talese en un libro evocador e íntimo, con personajes memorables: una lección de literatura y periodismo.Desde sus primeros años de reportero, en el periódico de su instituto o en la universidad, pasando por su trabajo como periodista deportivo en The New York Times y sus articulos para Esquire o para The New Yorker, Talese se ha destacado por encontrar historias detras de cada noticia y por el retrato implacable de los heroes silenciosos.La semblanza de Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson y Muhammad Ali visitando a Fidel Castro en La Habana; la de Joe DiMaggio, el gran campeon aislado en su retiro, o su propio periplo hasta China para seguirle la pista a la jugadora de futbol que habria podido darle el Campeonato del Mundo a su pais, son algunas de las deslumbrantes cronicas recogidas en esta edicion, junto a un texto reciente sobre Joe Girardi, el manager de la crisis.

El primer libro de no ficción que desveló los secretos de la Mafia y puso en jaque la vida de su autor, quien viajó a Sicilia y se infiltró en la intimidad de los Bonanno durante seis años.Una lluviosa noche de octubre de 1964, dos gansteres secuestraron al famoso jefe mafioso Joseph Bonanno. A la mañana siguiente la policia neoyorquina informaba de su muerte. Un año despues, Bonanno reaparecio de forma misteriosa, y su vuelta desato una sangrienta disputa entre familias de la mafia.Esta obra monumental, que se lee como una trepidante novela llena de detalles intimos y fruto de una brillante labor periodistica, se convirtio en un bestseller desde su publicacion en 1971, fue llevada a la pantalla televisiva en miniseries de la CBS e incluso serviria de inspiracion para crear Los Soprano. Ningun otro libro ha contribuido tanto a desvelar los secretos, la estructura, las guerras, las luchas de poder, las vidas familiares y las personalidades fascinantes y aterradoras de la mafia.Reseñas: Un documento de un valor incalculable. Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Review of BooksBrillante... Indispensable. Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times