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"Esquire Magazine" Gay Talese 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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