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Contents:
- GAY TALE BGRAPHY
- GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM
- GAY TALE
- OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
GAY TALE BGRAPHY
Not only is Nan Tale the revered edor of thors such as Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood, but as the wife of Gay Tale, she’s also one half of one of publishg’s most glamoro and myster upl. Evgenia Peretz charts Nan’s reer and roller-aster marriage—jt as her hband plans to wre about . * gay talese marriage *
Gay Tale Exam His Very-Public, 50-Year Marriage for Upg Book -- New York Magaze - Nymag.
GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM
Last week New York Magaze published a great profile of well-known thor Gay Tale who is wrg a new book about his 50-year marriage to Nan A Tale a long-time publisher at Random Hoe nbsp Tale gaed particular notoriety after publishg Thy Neighbor s Wife a provotive expose on * gay talese marriage *
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, 1959.Photo: 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. “Was my first apartment 60 bucks a month?” Gay asks his wife.
“What are you two up to?” 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.
GAY TALE
* gay talese marriage *
She turns to me and, lghg nervoly, says, “You’re wrg what?” About Gay, I say, but you too. Sudnly, Gay pip up, a stern edge to his voice, givg an orr. “So, he’ll see you alone, Nan.” Then to me: “Do you have her number?” Nan giv me the digs and then Gay says, “Good!
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 published.Photo: 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.J.
OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE
Gay Tale bgraphy wh personal life (affair, girliend , Gay), married (wife, children, divorce). A llectn of facts wh age. * gay talese marriage *
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.
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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. To be fair, seemed that Gay had already been tryg Nan’s patience wh his rearch.
Nan told Gay: “It’s your book, ’s your style of rearch.
“I told Gay, ‘Don’t do . I prs a ltle further: There are a lot of people who still believe that Gay huiated you, I tell her. In the Hamptons, 1987.Photo: Courty of Gay Tale.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
“Her fn of marriage up agast me—they’re not what would be the dictnary,” retorts Gay. Nan has said the past that she has not, though Gay, through y hts the prs, would perhaps like to believe otherwise. This is not a woman livg a nunnery,” Gay said an em the Daily News last year.) Eher way, their relatnship fascat people as much as troubl them.
Is Gay a philanrg bastard or a pneerg anthropologist?