When New Journalism Was New: Gay Tale on His Legendary Esquire Profile of Frank Satra ‹ Lerary Hub

Contents:

• GAY TALE
• FROM FRANK SATRA TO LADY GAGA, THE GREATT HS OF GAY TALE
• GREAT ARTICL ABOUT SATRA, HEMGWAY, AND MARILYN MONROE BY GAY TALE
• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL
• WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
• GAY TALE DEFENDS ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ AFTER SOURCE IS UNRCUT
• GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
• WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE: ON WHAT ENDUR SPORTS WRG AMID CHANGE
• GAY TALE

GAY TALE

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FROM FRANK SATRA TO LADY GAGA, THE GREATT HS OF GAY TALE

Gay Tale Photo by Thos Robson/Getty Imag. This week our gut was Gay Tale, the legendary wrer whose work for Esquire the 1960s fed a new era of journalism.

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GREAT ARTICL ABOUT SATRA, HEMGWAY, AND MARILYN MONROE BY GAY TALE

Gay Tale’s outle for “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” sketched on one of his tramark shirt boards, 1966. © 2015 and urty of Gay other tim I make not unobserved by the terviewee—such as durg those terptns our talks when the person has temporarily left the room, th allowg me moments which to jot down what I believe to be the relevant parts of our nversatn.

GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL

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WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA

Copyright © 2021 by Gay Tale. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT'A Wrer's Life, ' by Gay TaleA Reporter's ReporterApril 30, 2006It's hard to overstate Gay Tale's gold-standard reputatn. " But "Unto the Sons" suggted he is pable of distillg drama and pathos om his own life: that book's extraordary fal scene, his Italian father, enraged after Allied bombers stroyed an ancient Italian abbey south of Rome, smash ltle Gay's balsa-wood mols of Army Air Force plan, wherpon the distrght boy ns out onto the street and falls through a bakery's plate-glass than a memoir, though, Tale had cid to wre a book "set wh the i of a rtrant.

GAY TALE DEFENDS ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’ AFTER SOURCE IS UNRCUT

A half-dozen pag about the closeted gay manager of an Upper East Si club who died of AIDS, a dozen pag on the former headwaer at Elae's who qu to start his own rtrants. "Gay Tale remds me of another cultural star of his generatn who spends way too much time the zy bubble of the Upper East Si, walkg the same streets, talkg to the same people at the same plac night after night.

AdvertisementSKIP Marchant/Getty ImagJuly 1, 2016In Gay Tale’s forthg book, “The Voyr’s Motel, ” about a Colorado motel owner who spied on his guts for years whout their knowledge, Mr. “Gay is gog to do all his planned promotn and publicy, and we’ll make any necsary rrectns, as any publisher do, ” Mr. “Gay is an impassned person and he tak what he do very serly, and he’s trated alg wh this guy who isn’t pletely reliable.

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GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM

Gay Tale’s Other Problem.

WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.

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GAY TALE

Gay Tale probably wish he’d had a ld. "The Loser" n be found The Gay Tale Rear and The Silent Season of a Hero, an anthology of Tale's sportswrg. To do so, I turned to one of the most famo piec of journalism the 20th century: Gay Tale’s “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” which ran Esquire an exemplar of “New Journalism, ” the piece b lorful observatn wh immersive reportg.

GAY TALE: ON WHAT ENDUR SPORTS WRG AMID CHANGE

I didn’t want to be the guy to tell Gay Tale a puter jt wrote sentenc that uld possibly stand for his. Gay Tale is a legend the world of journalism and lerature, wh a legacy that spans over six s. Today, we celebrate Gay’s ntributns to the world of letters by divg to the five sential books of his imprsive ovre.

GAY TALE

Gay tak rears on a journey through the hallowed halls of the newspaper, troducg to the edors, reporters, and power brokers who make all happen. Wh his signature blend of objectivy and lerary flair, Gay pats a vivid picture of the world’s most powerful and fluential newspaper. Frank Satra Has a Cold (1966) – This inic piece of New Journalism is a classic example of Gay’s wrg style.

In , Gay profil the legendary sger Frank Satra, pturg the sence of the man and the myth. From the rerdg studs to the nightclubs, Gay tak rears on a journey through Satra’s world, g dialogue, terr monologue, and vivid scriptns to brg the story to life.