Fifty years ago, Gay Tale's magaze profile of Frank Satra kick-started the genre known as New Journalism. Mick Brown met him New York
Contents:
- WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
- 'I WANTED TO ELEVATE JOURNALISM': GAY TALE, THE WRER WHO NAILED FRANK SATRA
- 50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
- GAY TALE: THE TTHDIG INTERVIEW
- INTERVIEW WH AUTHOR GAY TALE
- GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
- GAY TALE, THE ART OF NONFICTN NO. 2
- “WHY’S THIS SO GOOD?” NO. 24: GAY TALE ON JOE DIMAGG
- GAY TALE ON THE STATE OF JOURNALISM, IRAQ AND HIS LIFE
- 'I WRE ABOUT AWFUL PEOPLE,' SAYS GAY TALE
WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
‘Frank Satra Has A Cold’ was published 1966 and stantly enshred journalism’s hall of fame. But the t-and-moe tale of how Gay Tale ma Ol’ Blue Ey sg om a distance is jt as astonishg * gay talese interview *
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'Frank Satra Has a Cold’, Gay Tale’s 15, 000-word study of the sger at the height of his fame, which was published Esquire magaze April 1966, is perhaps the most famo magaze story Amerin journalism, and there is some irony the fact that Tale had no great sire to wre . Gay Tale’s outle for ‘Frank Satra Has a Cold’.
'I WANTED TO ELEVATE JOURNALISM': GAY TALE, THE WRER WHO NAILED FRANK SATRA
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50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
Every J school has embraced Gay Tale's 1966 Esquire wre-around on Satra as a gold standard New Journalism profile-wrg. Fifty years later, Tale himself seems slightly puzzled by s acclaim. * gay talese interview *
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GAY TALE: THE TTHDIG INTERVIEW
The former baseball god didn't want to talk. And 1966, wrer Gay Tale didn't need him to. * gay talese interview *
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INTERVIEW WH AUTHOR GAY TALE
Interview wh Author Gay Tale.
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GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
” “Look, Gay, ” said Hay, “’s all set up. Where do this fall your hierarchy of Gay Tale piec?
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GAY TALE, THE ART OF NONFICTN NO. 2
And when I see this guy — Vcent DeRosa, who I hadn’t met and never saw after that — I, Gay Tale, n unrstand . In orr to get to Gay Tale’s study you have to leave his Upper East Si town hoe and go down the elegantly curlg stairs, to another entrance, wh another set of keys, and down another flight of steps.
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Gay Tale: I wasn’t given any advice.
“WHY’S THIS SO GOOD?” NO. 24: GAY TALE ON JOE DIMAGG
The value of listengGay Tale: And so was my listeng to the stori as women on one end of the unter, who would talk across the unter to my mother on those leisurely afternoons while browsg through the clothg racks pickg fabric or pickg drs to try on. Gay Tale: Patience.
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Gay Tale: Love is not important.
GAY TALE ON THE STATE OF JOURNALISM, IRAQ AND HIS LIFE
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'I WRE ABOUT AWFUL PEOPLE,' SAYS GAY TALE
Whout rpect the game is importance of mutual pennceGay Tale: I thk what kept the marriage together durg tim of strs and there was certaly many tim of strs as any relatnship and certaly our kd of marriage there was bee I was travelg a lot. She was never jt Gay Tale’s wife, never. Gay Tale: I thk that om the time I was young to even now the ia that the novel is the big sirable beast, and Mailer ed to ll the beast, the novelist.
”Gay Tale: That book alt wh a lot of thgs – censorship; what was immoral by the standards of that time meang the 1970s and ‘80s.
Gay Tale: Well, sometim I wear cloth that are ma for me by tailors. Gay Tale: The tie is certaly not ma for me. Which, oddly enough, rells “The Silent Season of the Hero, ” one of a pair of magaze profil Gay Tale wrote for Esquire 1966.