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- GAY TALE READS OM THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFEBY VANY FAIRAPRIL 14, 2009SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHY NEIGHBOR'S WIFEBY GAY TALE (EC/HARPER PERENNIAL)UPON PUBLITN OF THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE 1981, GAY TALE WAS HAILED AS A PNEER OF THE STUDY OF SEXUALY, OPENG DISCSN ON THE PREVLY TABOO SUBJECTS OF SEX, SWGERS, AND PORNOGRAPHY.THIS WEEK, EC/HARPER PERENNIAL IS RE-ISSUG TALE'S SEMAL WORK, PLETE WH UPDATED STORI ON THE SUBJECTS AND CULTUR THAT FIRST PTURED REARS.IN THIS EXCLIVE D EXCERPT, GAY TALE READS OM HIS NEW AFTERWORD AND EXPLAS WHY THE PUBLITN OF THE BOOK MARKED THE BT—AND WORST—YEAR OF HIS LIFE AS A WRER.LISTEN TO THE PODST AFTER THE JUMP.GAY TALE READS OM THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE BY VANY FAIRREAD MORE:• *VANY FAIR’*S WRERS READG.SUBSCRIBE TO ’S ITUN PODST.VANY FAIR
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GAY TALE READS OM THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFEBY VANY FAIRAPRIL 14, 2009SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHY NEIGHBOR'S WIFEBY GAY TALE (EC/HARPER PERENNIAL)UPON PUBLITN OF THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE 1981, GAY TALE WAS HAILED AS A PNEER OF THE STUDY OF SEXUALY, OPENG DISCSN ON THE PREVLY TABOO SUBJECTS OF SEX, SWGERS, AND PORNOGRAPHY.THIS WEEK, EC/HARPER PERENNIAL IS RE-ISSUG TALE'S SEMAL WORK, PLETE WH UPDATED STORI ON THE SUBJECTS AND CULTUR THAT FIRST PTURED REARS.IN THIS EXCLIVE D EXCERPT, GAY TALE READS OM HIS NEW AFTERWORD AND EXPLAS WHY THE PUBLITN OF THE BOOK MARKED THE BT—AND WORST—YEAR OF HIS LIFE AS A WRER.LISTEN TO THE PODST AFTER THE JUMP.GAY TALE READS OM THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE BY VANY FAIRREAD MORE:• *VANY FAIR’*S WRERS READG.SUBSCRIBE TO ’S ITUN PODST.VANY FAIR
Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of Amerin Permissivens Before the Age of AIDS: 9780345472700: Tale, Gay: Books * gay talese thy neighbor's wife *
When wrg THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE of, and to, Amerins, Gay Tale once says that currently "The ntemporary hband, unlike his father and grandfather before him, is not so shocked" about sexual velopments, he may be speakg about our realy, but for openns and matury our realy is nowhere near that of Europe the past, when the sexual mun of 16th Century Germany were far more progrsive and numero than any we have known, and cultur like France or Italy regularly outdistance for sheer adulthood. Gay Tale's book THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE is an important text this book is not so much a prehensive renrg of the mid-Twentieth Century sexual revolutn, which started wh such heterosexual promise and has volved to ltle more than Gay Rights issu (that would be a different Gay). The bt of Gay Tale!
Reviewed Brazil on July 1, 2014Gay Tale spent 9 years rearchg and wrg about the sexualy of ameri. Although shocked the world when was first published 1981, btsellg thor Gay Tale's exploratn to the hidn and changg sex.
THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE — GAY TALE
The provotive classic work newly updated An timate personal odyssey across Ameri's changg sexual landspe When first published, Gay Tale's 1981 groundbreakg work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a natn wh s powerful, eye-openg revelatns about the sexual activi and procliv * gay talese thy neighbor's wife *
In a narrative as absorbg as a novel, Gay Tale timately scrib many. When first published, Gay Tale's 1981 groundbreakg work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a natn wh s powerful, eye-openg revelatns about the sexual activi and proclivi of the Amerin public the era before AIDS.
The provotive classic work newly updatedAn timate personal odyssey across Ameri's changg sexual landspeWhen first published, Gay Tale's 1981 groundbreakg work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a natn wh s powerful, eye-openg revelatns about the sexual activi and proclivi of the Amerin public the era before AIDS.
After the massage parlors, after the affair, after the sndalo book that nearly broke up his fay, Gay Tale is wrg a new op—about his relatnship wh his wife. * gay talese thy neighbor's wife *
Gay Tale Exam His Very-Public, 50-Year Marriage for Upg Book -- New York Magaze - Nymag. It isn’t until our third terview that I notice Gay Tale has been stg unrneath a patg of a naked woman wh a rabow g out of her vaga. It is here where they began their life together as a uple their mid-twenti, when the five-story brownstone was like a tenement and Gay lived 3F, a stud they both still refer to as his “bachelor pad”; this is where they raised their two dghters, Pamela and Cathere, and slowly took over every apartment the buildg before fally buyg 1973; this is where they have held numerable book parti for Nan’s celebrated thors; and this is where Gay has done much of the wrg—the historic Esquire piec, the bt sellers wh biblil tl—that brought him fame, fortune, and no small amount of personal agony.
Gay wr his new afterword that the immediate aftermath of the book’s publitn, Nan acpanied him on talk shows “to expla that our maral love had remaed unthreatened while I nducted rearch New York massage parlors and a hedonistic nudist lony Los Angel”—which is only half te. Nan and Gay elopg Rome, Courty of Gay Tale. It seems far removed om Gay’s realm, jt a floor above, where he keeps the artifacts of his storied reer (cludg a life-size rdboard cutout of himself) along wh his untls bpoke sus and dozens of hand-bbled sho.
Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Tale (Ec/Harper Perennial)Upon publitn of Thy Neighbor's Wife 1981, Gay Tale was hailed as a pneer of the study of sexualy, openg discsn on the prevly taboo subjects of sex, swgers, and week, Ec/Harper Perennial is re-issug Tale's semal work, plete wh updated stori on the subjects and cultur that first ptured rears. In this exclive d excerpt, Gay Tale reads om his new afterword and explas why the publitn of the book marked the bt—and worst—year of his life as a to the podst after the jump. * gay talese thy neighbor's wife *
” Gay asks his wife.
” As slowly dawns on me that Gay has not told her that he has agreed to participate an article about their marriage, I n feel the tensn beg to rise. “Jonathan is gog to ll you, ” says Gay.
” About Gay, I say, but you too. Sudnly, Gay pip up, a stern edge to his voice, givg an orr. ” Nan giv me the digs and then Gay says, “Good!
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That was when she put the A (her main name is Ahearn) to her name, as if to say wh a sgle letter: I am not jt Gay’s wife. The fay 1980, the year Thy Neighbor's Wife was Thomas Victor/Courty of Gay Tale. When I first lled Nan to schle an terview, the small talk was brief and mostly about Gay.
Stuff of legend: One eveng 1972, when Nan and Gay were walkg home om dner at P. Clarke’s, Gay spied a neon sign above a buildg on Lexgton Avenue near 59th Street that read LIVE NUDE MODELS.
Gay said to Nan, “Let’s go check that out. ” Nan said to Gay, “No, no, no. The rultg piece, “An Eveng the Nu Wh Gay Tale, ” scrib Tale nng around the cy wh a bunch of louche swgers and livg up at sex clubs.