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Bartleby and Me - Reflections of an Old Scrivener by Gay Talese
Category: Biography
"Literary legend" (New York) Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many "nobodies" who make New York so fascinating, culminating with the strange and riveting story of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Upper East Side brownstone--and himself--rather than give up his beloved patch of ...Show more
Bartleby and Me - Reflections of an Old Scrivener by Gay Talese; Mike Ortego (Read by)
Category: Biography
"Literary legend" (New York) Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many "nobodies" who make New York so fascinating, culminating with the strange and riveting story of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Upper East Side brownstone--and himself--rather than give up his beloved patch of ...Show more
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold Collectors Edn by Gay Talese
Category: Gifts | Series: Taschens Literary
High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese by Gay Talese
Category: Languages and Reference
When Gay Talese left the New York Times in 1965 to write for Esquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility and craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation and an interest in American everyday life--in taboo topics and overlooked trut ...Show more
Honor Thy Father by Talese Gay
Category: Fiction
Creates a portrait of everyday life within the Mafia world by focusing on three generations of the Bonanno family.
New York: 365 Days: From the Photo Archives of the "New York Times" by Gay Talese
Category: Photography
"New York: 365 Days" is the equivalent of a walking tour through time and space. Beginning with New Year's Day, the reader takes a fascinating and evocative journey through the New York Year, stopping at such calendrical landmarks as the opening of the baseball season, the Fourth of July, the Macy's Tha ...Show more
The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge by Gay Talese
Category: Popular History
Toward the end of 1964, the Verrazano 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 bridge in the United States and th ...Show more
The Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese
Category: Fiction
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 that I ...Show more
The Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese
Category: Culture
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of 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 that I could contribute to its ...Show more
The Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese
Category: Biography
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of 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 that I could contribute to its ...Show more