Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Tale lnched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton ss down wh neteen practners of what he lls the New New Journalism to discs their methods, wrgs and reers.
Contents:
- GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM
- WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
- GAY TALE AND THE PROBLEM WH NEW JOURNALISM
- WRER GAY TALE DEFENDS 'NEW JOURNALISM'{GRID-ROW-START:2;GRID-LUMN-START:2;GRID-LUMN-END:3;}@MEDIA (MAX-WIDTH:950PX){{GRID-LUMN-START:1;GRID-LUMN-END:2;}}{MARG-BOTTOM:1EM;}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}LERARY IN GAY TALE, LEFT, AND CHRIS JON, RIGHT, WRER-AT-LARGE FOR ESQUIRE MAGAZE, LEAD A DISCSN ON WRG NARRATIVE JOURNALISM FRIDAY THE FONG AUDORIUM. {BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;MARG-BOTTOM:5PX;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;} IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}GA K. 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TALE ALSO KEEPS NEARLY EVERY PIECE OF PAPER HE ACROSS, HE SAID, CLUDG NOT OM HIS WIFE, REJECTN SLIPS, AND TERVIEW NOT. TALE LLECTED 33 SETS OF NOT OM HIS TERVIEWS WH FRANK SATRA.KEEPG THGS IS IMPORTANT TO TALE, HE SAID, BEE HE OFTEN REVISS HIS NOT AND FDS TERTG PIEC OF THE PUZZLE THAT HE FAILED TO NOTICE BEFORE.“YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE STORY NEVER ENDS,” TALE SAID.TALE ALSO SHARED HIS DISDA FOR MORN REPORTG TECHNOLOGY. HE STILL WR ON YELLOW NOTEPADS WH PENCIL AND A TYPEWRER. TAPE-RERRS, TALE SAID, CHEAPEN THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE REPORTER AND THE SUBJECT.“YOU TEND TO FALL PREY TO THE CHARM OF THAT, THE EASE OF ... THOSE LTLE, PLASTIC, SPNG WHEELS THAT GIVE YOU EVERYTHG, BUT GIVE YOU NOTHG,” TALE SAID.AS THE SON OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS, TALE SAID HE ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIR. BUT TALE ATTRIBUT HIS CURSY AS A JOURNALIST TO THIS FEELG.“I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I WAS DIVID AS A PERSON, AND THAT WAS PERFECT FOR A JOURNALIST,” TALE SAID. “YOU N’T BE AN SIR.”{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTTO TCH THE TAILS THAT ARE SENTIAL NARRATIVE NON-FICTN, TALE SAID, A REPORTER HAS TO MASTER “THE ART OF HANGG OUT,” OR SPENDG A LOT OF TIME WH A SUBJECT.TALE ALSO EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF DRSG WELL TO SUCCEED JOURNALISM. HE WORE A PEA-GREEN SU, A YELLOW SILK TIE, AND A NDY-NE STRIPED DRS SHIRT TO THE TALK.TALE, WHO STARTED OUT WRG FOR NEWSPAPERS, BEGAN WRG NARRATIVE NON-FICTN BEE HE WANTED TO WRE ABOUT REAL PEOPLE—A FORM HE LLS “STORI WH REAL NAM.”“I WAS THKG, ‘WHY N’T I DO AS A NON-FICTN WRER WHAT SHORT STORY WRERS DO, WHAT DRAMATISTS DO, WHAT NOVELISTS DO?’ WHICH IS WRE SCEN,” TALE SAID.WRG ABOUT DIVIDUAL STORI OF SUCCS, MOTN, AND PERSEVERANCE, TALE SAID, IS WORTHWHILE BEE EVERYONE EXPERIENC THE SAME THGS.JT HAVG FISHED A NEW YORKER STORY ON TONY BENT AND LADY GAGA’S LLABORATN, TALE IS CURRENTLY WORKG ON A NARRATIVE PIECE ABOUT JOE GIRARDI, THE MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK YANKE.TALE DID NOT ALWAYS ENJOY UNIVERSAL SUCCS. MANY HAVE ACCED HIM OF WRG FICTN, BUT TALE SAID HIS GOAL WAS TO MOVE BEYOND THE RTRICTNS OF NEWS WRG.“I RPECTED [NEWS WRERS] BEE THEY GOT RIGHT, BUT I DIDN’T WANT TO EMULATE THEM ANY WAY BEE THEY WERE BORG,” TALE SAID. “IT IS GETTG RIGHT, AND THEN BEG A STORYTELLER. 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- GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
- GAY TALE
- GAY TALE, THE ART OF NONFICTN NO. 2
- GAY TALE ON 'A WRER'S LIFE'
- 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 HAS A COKE*: REFLECTNS OF A NARRATIVE LEGEND, NVERSATN WH ESQUIRE'S CHRIS JON
- WRER GAY TALE DEFENDS 'NEW JOURNALISM'{GRID-ROW-START:2;GRID-LUMN-START:2;GRID-LUMN-END:3;}@MEDIA (MAX-WIDTH:950PX){{GRID-LUMN-START:1;GRID-LUMN-END:2;}}{MARG-BOTTOM:1EM;}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}LERARY IN GAY TALE, LEFT, AND CHRIS JON, RIGHT, WRER-AT-LARGE FOR ESQUIRE MAGAZE, LEAD A DISCSN ON WRG NARRATIVE JOURNALISM FRIDAY THE FONG AUDORIUM. {BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;MARG-BOTTOM:5PX;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;} IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}GA K. 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TALE ALSO KEEPS NEARLY EVERY PIECE OF PAPER HE ACROSS, HE SAID, CLUDG NOT OM HIS WIFE, REJECTN SLIPS, AND TERVIEW NOT. TALE LLECTED 33 SETS OF NOT OM HIS TERVIEWS WH FRANK SATRA.KEEPG THGS IS IMPORTANT TO TALE, HE SAID, BEE HE OFTEN REVISS HIS NOT AND FDS TERTG PIEC OF THE PUZZLE THAT HE FAILED TO NOTICE BEFORE.“YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE STORY NEVER ENDS,” TALE SAID.TALE ALSO SHARED HIS DISDA FOR MORN REPORTG TECHNOLOGY. HE STILL WR ON YELLOW NOTEPADS WH PENCIL AND A TYPEWRER. TAPE-RERRS, TALE SAID, CHEAPEN THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE REPORTER AND THE SUBJECT.“YOU TEND TO FALL PREY TO THE CHARM OF THAT, THE EASE OF ... THOSE LTLE, PLASTIC, SPNG WHEELS THAT GIVE YOU EVERYTHG, BUT GIVE YOU NOTHG,” TALE SAID.AS THE SON OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS, TALE SAID HE ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIR. BUT TALE ATTRIBUT HIS CURSY AS A JOURNALIST TO THIS FEELG.“I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I WAS DIVID AS A PERSON, AND THAT WAS PERFECT FOR A JOURNALIST,” TALE SAID. “YOU N’T BE AN SIR.”{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTTO TCH THE TAILS THAT ARE SENTIAL NARRATIVE NON-FICTN, TALE SAID, A REPORTER HAS TO MASTER “THE ART OF HANGG OUT,” OR SPENDG A LOT OF TIME WH A SUBJECT.TALE ALSO EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF DRSG WELL TO SUCCEED JOURNALISM. HE WORE A PEA-GREEN SU, A YELLOW SILK TIE, AND A NDY-NE STRIPED DRS SHIRT TO THE TALK.TALE, WHO STARTED OUT WRG FOR NEWSPAPERS, BEGAN WRG NARRATIVE NON-FICTN BEE HE WANTED TO WRE ABOUT REAL PEOPLE—A FORM HE LLS “STORI WH REAL NAM.”“I WAS THKG, ‘WHY N’T I DO AS A NON-FICTN WRER WHAT SHORT STORY WRERS DO, WHAT DRAMATISTS DO, WHAT NOVELISTS DO?’ WHICH IS WRE SCEN,” TALE SAID.WRG ABOUT DIVIDUAL STORI OF SUCCS, MOTN, AND PERSEVERANCE, TALE SAID, IS WORTHWHILE BEE EVERYONE EXPERIENC THE SAME THGS.JT HAVG FISHED A NEW YORKER STORY ON TONY BENT AND LADY GAGA’S LLABORATN, TALE IS CURRENTLY WORKG ON A NARRATIVE PIECE ABOUT JOE GIRARDI, THE MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK YANKE.TALE DID NOT ALWAYS ENJOY UNIVERSAL SUCCS. MANY HAVE ACCED HIM OF WRG FICTN, BUT TALE SAID HIS GOAL WAS TO MOVE BEYOND THE RTRICTNS OF NEWS WRG.“I RPECTED [NEWS WRERS] BEE THEY GOT RIGHT, BUT I DIDN’T WANT TO EMULATE THEM ANY WAY BEE THEY WERE BORG,” TALE SAID. “IT IS GETTG RIGHT, AND THEN BEG A STORYTELLER. 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GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM
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Author Gay Tale looks over a mancript at his home Ocean Cy, 1992. paterly style of Gay Tale’s legendaryEsquiremagaze article, ‘Frank Satra Has A Cold’.
WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
In the sprg of 1964, Gay Tale was on assignment for Esquire at Floyd Patterson’s upstate New York trag mp, when the former heavyweight champn of the world got a phone ll om his wife Sandra. The Pattersons lived Srsdale, and they were hero of the liberal imagatn, but was only 1964 and they were still racial pneers. Their seven-year-old dghter, Jeannie, was the onl... * gay talese new journalism *
Some make their livg by wrg; Gay. his wife sce 1959, legendary lerary edor Nan Tale, Gay explaed the negotiatns prr to his. Durg the nt days when Gay was immersed.
GAY TALE AND THE PROBLEM WH NEW JOURNALISM
Other articl where Gay Tale is discsed: New Journalism: From muckrakg to Wolfe, Tale, and Capote: …himself gave that cred to Gay Tale. Tale began his reer while high school the 1940s as a reporter for the Ocean Cy Sentel-Ledger New Jersey and, after graduatg om llege, was hired as a pyboy by The New York Tim. In his spare time he wrote… * gay talese new journalism *
”Talkg about the salac 1970s wh an ABC TV terviewer, Gay posed the qutns,. Aged 85, Gay Tale ntu to wre books — he’s currently workg on one about.
Gay Tale is a rake. 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.
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WRER GAY TALE DEFENDS 'NEW JOURNALISM'{GRID-ROW-START:2;GRID-LUMN-START:2;GRID-LUMN-END:3;}@MEDIA (MAX-WIDTH:950PX){{GRID-LUMN-START:1;GRID-LUMN-END:2;}}{MARG-BOTTOM:1EM;}{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;MAX-WIDTH:640PX;Z-X:20;POSN:RELATIVE;} > DIV{BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;} > DIV.SHORT-LEFT{FLOAT:LEFT;} > DIV.SHORT-RIGHT{FLOAT:RIGHT;} > DIV.SHORT-SMALL{MAX-WIDTH:200PX;} > DIV.SHORT-MEDIUM{MAX-WIDTH:400PX;} > DIV.SHORT-LARGE{MAX-WIDTH:600PX;} > DIV.SHORT-XLARGE{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;} > DIV.SHORT-FULLSCREEN{PADDG:0PX;}{WIDTH:100%;}{MAX-WIDTH:1000PX;MARG:5PX 0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#777;FONT-SIZE:15PX;}LERARY IN GAY TALE, LEFT, AND CHRIS JON, RIGHT, WRER-AT-LARGE FOR ESQUIRE MAGAZE, LEAD A DISCSN ON WRG NARRATIVE JOURNALISM FRIDAY THE FONG AUDORIUM. {BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;MARG-BOTTOM:5PX;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;} IMG{PADDG-RIGHT:7PX;}BY {LOR:#BA0600;}GA K. 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TALE ALSO KEEPS NEARLY EVERY PIECE OF PAPER HE ACROSS, HE SAID, CLUDG NOT OM HIS WIFE, REJECTN SLIPS, AND TERVIEW NOT. TALE LLECTED 33 SETS OF NOT OM HIS TERVIEWS WH FRANK SATRA.KEEPG THGS IS IMPORTANT TO TALE, HE SAID, BEE HE OFTEN REVISS HIS NOT AND FDS TERTG PIEC OF THE PUZZLE THAT HE FAILED TO NOTICE BEFORE.“YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE STORY NEVER ENDS,” TALE SAID.TALE ALSO SHARED HIS DISDA FOR MORN REPORTG TECHNOLOGY. HE STILL WR ON YELLOW NOTEPADS WH PENCIL AND A TYPEWRER. TAPE-RERRS, TALE SAID, CHEAPEN THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE REPORTER AND THE SUBJECT.“YOU TEND TO FALL PREY TO THE CHARM OF THAT, THE EASE OF ... THOSE LTLE, PLASTIC, SPNG WHEELS THAT GIVE YOU EVERYTHG, BUT GIVE YOU NOTHG,” TALE SAID.AS THE SON OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS, TALE SAID HE ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIR. BUT TALE ATTRIBUT HIS CURSY AS A JOURNALIST TO THIS FEELG.“I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I WAS DIVID AS A PERSON, AND THAT WAS PERFECT FOR A JOURNALIST,” TALE SAID. “YOU N’T BE AN SIR.”{DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTTO TCH THE TAILS THAT ARE SENTIAL NARRATIVE NON-FICTN, TALE SAID, A REPORTER HAS TO MASTER “THE ART OF HANGG OUT,” OR SPENDG A LOT OF TIME WH A SUBJECT.TALE ALSO EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF DRSG WELL TO SUCCEED JOURNALISM. HE WORE A PEA-GREEN SU, A YELLOW SILK TIE, AND A NDY-NE STRIPED DRS SHIRT TO THE TALK.TALE, WHO STARTED OUT WRG FOR NEWSPAPERS, BEGAN WRG NARRATIVE NON-FICTN BEE HE WANTED TO WRE ABOUT REAL PEOPLE—A FORM HE LLS “STORI WH REAL NAM.”“I WAS THKG, ‘WHY N’T I DO AS A NON-FICTN WRER WHAT SHORT STORY WRERS DO, WHAT DRAMATISTS DO, WHAT NOVELISTS DO?’ WHICH IS WRE SCEN,” TALE SAID.WRG ABOUT DIVIDUAL STORI OF SUCCS, MOTN, AND PERSEVERANCE, TALE SAID, IS WORTHWHILE BEE EVERYONE EXPERIENC THE SAME THGS.JT HAVG FISHED A NEW YORKER STORY ON TONY BENT AND LADY GAGA’S LLABORATN, TALE IS CURRENTLY WORKG ON A NARRATIVE PIECE ABOUT JOE GIRARDI, THE MANAGER OF THE NEW YORK YANKE.TALE DID NOT ALWAYS ENJOY UNIVERSAL SUCCS. MANY HAVE ACCED HIM OF WRG FICTN, BUT TALE SAID HIS GOAL WAS TO MOVE BEYOND THE RTRICTNS OF NEWS WRG.“I RPECTED [NEWS WRERS] BEE THEY GOT RIGHT, BUT I DIDN’T WANT TO EMULATE THEM ANY WAY BEE THEY WERE BORG,” TALE SAID. “IT IS GETTG RIGHT, AND THEN BEG A STORYTELLER. 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Many cred the articl Gay Tale wrote for Esquire magaze the 1960s as the begng of New Journalism. Tale talks about his new memoir, A Wrer's Life. * gay talese new journalism *
The wrers often creded wh begng the movement clu Tom Wolfe, Tman Capote, and Gay tradnal vtigative reportg, wrers the genre immersed themselv their subjects, at tim spendg months the field gatherg facts through rearch, terviews, and observatn.
Although Wolfe received perhaps the most cred for tablishg the New Journalism as a lerary movement, he himself gave that cred to Gay Tale. Gay Tale is livg through every journalist’s nightmare.
And now we all know about Gay Tale, possibly doomg his book before even out.
GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
Gay Tale is Gay Tale is the thor of thirteen books, among them “The Bridge: The Buildg of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge” and “Frank Satra Has a Cold,” which clus photographs by the late Phil Stern. on The New Yorker. Read Gay Tale's b and get latt news stori and articl. Connect wh ers and jo the nversatn at The New Yorker. * gay talese new journalism *
Gay Tale troduced storytellg to the practice of journalism. Gay Tale: Well, I thk was Tom Wolfe who creded me wh beg a forefather that bs. Esteemed wrer Gay Tale—nsired one of the fathers of the “new journalism” style the 1960s—spoke to a crowd of fans and wrers about narrative journalism Boylston Hall on has wrten several famo narrative piec like “Frank Satra Has a Cold” for publitns rangg om Esquire to The New Yorker, and is creded wh beg one of the first wrers to sert lerary techniqu to of a lecture seri that is ually anized solely by the Nieman Foundatn for Journalism, Friday's talk was -anized wh the Harvard Wrers at Work lecture seri to attract a broar shared some of his quirky wrg methods, such as wrg not on shirt boards.
GAY TALE
Gay Tale helped lnch lerary journalism 1966 when Esquire published his profile “Frank Satra Has a Cold.
Inved by the Nieman Foundatn, Gay Tale recently spoke at Harvard’s Wrers at Work seri nversatn wh Esquire wrer at large Chris Jon. Gay Tale, even as a young reporter, was drawn to wrg scen, as short-story wrers and novelists do.
In the sixti, Brl was often associated, along wh Pete Hal, Tom Wolfe, and Gay Tale, wh a movement lled the New Journalism, which brought the techniqu of fictn to first-person nonfictn.
GAY TALE, THE ART OF NONFICTN NO. 2
In the sprg of 1964, Gay Tale was on assignment for Esquire at Floyd Patterson’s upstate New York trag mp, when the former heavyweight champn of the world got a phone ll om his wife Sandra.
Learn about this topic the articl:New Journalism In New Journalism: From muckrakg to Wolfe, Tale, and Capote…himself gave that cred to Gay Tale.
GAY TALE ON 'A WRER'S LIFE'
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. GAY TALESE. Gay Tale on 'A Wrer's Life'.
Many cred the articl that Gay Tale wrote the 1960s as the begng of New Journalism. At the age of 74, the wrer has a new book out, lled Gay Tale: A Wrer's Life. 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.
I didn’t want to be the guy to tell Gay Tale a puter jt wrote sentenc that uld possibly stand for his.
WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.
Early October Gay Tale me to the Boston Athenam to celebrate publitn of “The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Wrg of Gay Tale.
GAY TALE
Contug the Nieman Foundatn narrative wrg speaker seri set up by Paige Williams, journalism legend Gay Tale appeared on mp two weeks ago nversatn wh Esquire’s Chris Jon. Adam Tanner: Gay Tale is an pecially good choice for those seekg to study great wrg. Jon: We were jt havg ffee the feteria, and Gay [was tellg me he] is workg on a piece for the New Yorker on Joe Girardi, the [Yanke’] manager.
Gay is gog to Peoria to s wh Girardi while he viss his father, who has Alzheimer’s.
GAY TALE: ON WHAT ENDUR SPORTS WRG AMID CHANGE
Here’s Gay Tale 50 years later, and I had saved all my not. Like Gay’s sayg – if you put some of those great vers om the ‘60s, like the black Vietnam war ver or the Andy Warhol –. It’s horsecrap, bee when you do the kd of work that Gay do or that I try to do, and you spend weeks or months wh someone you’re gog to form an opn.
What unts, I thk, and I thk Gay will agree wh me, is not objectivy, ’s tth. Esquire published a ltle booklet that clud the story and also clud pictur of your shirt boards wh your outle, and if you haven’t seen Gay’s outl they’re like maps to Narnia – there’s arrows and lists and diagrams.
Photo of Gay Tale and Chris Jon by Jonathan Sez.