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GAY TALE’S WRG LIFE

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GAY TALE ON 'A WRER'S LIFE'

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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. “One of the bt piec I ever wrote my life, which no one ever heard of, ” as Gay Tale put on his recent Longform podst, has been republished on “Mr.

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Gay tale, among many other acplishments, wrote the most famo le magaz. “Frank Satra had a ld,” which appeared high Tale’s 1966 Esquire profile, munited stantly that the piece would pay no attentn to the nicetie [...] * gay talese life *

Later on, he’d wre The Kgdom and the Power, the classic 1969 book about the Tim, and Thy Neighbor’s Wife, his study of the sexual revolutn, which he himself beme a character named “Gay Tale. By Gay Tale. Is that what you want to know, " asks acclaimed journalist Gay Tale.

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’.

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.

THE LIFE AND <STRIKE>LOV</STRIKE> LOVE OF GAY TALE

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”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 now foc on his own life--the zeal for tth, the narrative edge, the sometim startlg precisn, that won aclas for his journalism, and bt-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about The New York Tim, the Mafia, the sex dtry, and the Amerin immigrant experience.

GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM

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 life *

Gay Tale is a journalist and ternatnal bt-sellg thor whose works clu The Bridge (Walker & Company 2003), The Kgdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbors Wife, and Unto the Sons. 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.

GAY TALE

Gay Tale, who wrote for Esquire the 1960s and currently ntribut to The New Yorker, is the thor of several books. His latt is A Wrer's Life. "I want to know how people did what they did. And I want to know how that par wh how" name="scriptn * gay talese life *

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.

” 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.

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Sudnly, Gay pip up, a stern edge to his voice, givg an orr. ” 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 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 TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”

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. To be fair, seemed that Gay had already been tryg Nan’s patience wh his rearch.

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Nan told Gay: “It’s your book, ’s your style of rearch. “I told Gay, ‘Don’t do .

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