Gay Talese: 15 books

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...

«Algunos de los reportajes más memorables del último medio siglo periodístico. Un clásico moderno.» Babelia Desde que allá por los años sesenta Gay Talese irrumpiera en el mundo del periodismo para revolucionar sus formas y cambiar para siempre la manera de afrontar un reportaje, sus...

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 hombres, mujeres, acero y hormigón. Una buena lectura.» Denver Post «Llegan...

«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 ambos, el voyeur y el periodista, parecen rondar el delito.» Elvira Lindo, El País El...

A selection of classic high points in the illustrious career of Gay Talese. "[High Notes] reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made Talese a paragon of the New Journalism.†? -New York Times Book Review Admired by generations of reporters,...

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 revolucionó la percepción de las costumbres sexuales de los estadounidenses y, por extensión,...

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s 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...

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 artículos...

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...

“Beautifully documented . . . no less than a landmark in the field of writing and journalism.”—The Nation “Fascinating . . . Seldom has anyone been so successful in making a newspaper come alive as a human institution.”—The New York Times In this century and the last, most...

Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano (or, more properly, Verrazzano) Narrows Bridge-linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island-was completed. Fifty years later, it remains an engineering marvel. At 13,700 feet (more than two and a half miles), it is still the longest suspension...

"An Italian ROOTS." —The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the...

A classic masterwork newly updated The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime family On New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported...

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities...