Gay Tale: The New York Observer - Nieman Foundatn

Contents:

• GAY TALE’S ANTS
• GAY TALE AND A CY OF PERMANENT CHANGE
• ONE ON 1: NEW YORK LERARY GIANT GAY TALE
• GAY TALE
• THE GAY TALE REAR
• THE GAY TALE REAR
• THE GAY TALE REAR
• GAY TALE'S SENSE OF WONR
• GAY TALE AND A CY OF PERMANENT CHANGE
• THE GAY TALE REAR
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER

GAY TALE’S ANTS

One was Gay Tale’s “New York. Cy Atlas ss down wh Gay Tale to learn his thoughts about the future and the past of New York Cy, which has been his home for 60 years.

Gay Tale tells me that he do not have dire notns about the future of New York.

GAY TALE AND A CY OF PERMANENT CHANGE

Gay says that a way was the most important job that he ever had at the paper, where he would later work as a staff reporter. When you are a reporter, Gay explas, you have to go out to the cy and terview people, chase down the mayor, watch a strike, talk to firemen who have hosed down a burng buildg. Gay Tale left his job as a New York Tim reporter when he was 33 years old.

Gay did not fd another place of employment. Gay opens his ont door—which is beg repated by a man drsed whe who asks who I am here to see—wh a hat his hand.

Gay unlocks a door at the hoe’s right rner. Gay here at 9 or 10 the morng, and then stays and works until 2 or 3. At the first sk is the large typewrer wh which Gay first wr his stori.

ONE ON 1: NEW YORK LERARY GIANT GAY TALE

There is a vase of red Calla lili, a potted tree, a poster that reads: “Mondadori dà il benvenuto Italia a Gay Tale tore di La donna d’altri. Gay tak not on shirt boards which he cuts to f to the breast pocket of his su jacket. Gay’s father was a tailor, and Gay drs impecbly.

Gay puts on a jacket and a hat each morng before he walks down to the bunker, even though he will not see anyone there the day. Tonight, Gay and his wife, Nan, will meet the son of Eddy Duch, the pianist and bandlear, and his wife for dner at La Ve d’Or, a rtrant that opened 1937.

Gay pots out that the same fay has owned the New York Tim sce 1896. Gay, the son of an Italian immigrant, unrstands that this tensn is one of the nstants here. Skyscrapers that are nearly one hundred years old rt bi what Gay lls “glass monstrosi.

GAY TALE

This year there will be a reissue of the 1964, The Bridge: The Buildg of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge, which Gay wrote while still at the New York Tim. Gay reissu his work bee “when I fish a story, I don’t thk ’s done.

THE GAY TALE REAR

For the new edn, Gay found the scendants of the men who worked on the bridge. Gay tells me that when he terviewed Joseph earlier this year, he said that:.

Gay has vered New York great storms and great fir, a plane crash. Gay never wanted to move om New York to Washgton.

“Too much stant policizatn is stilled now more than ever, ” Gay says. When Gay se New York attacked, he do not policize .

THE GAY TALE REAR

“Once I saw New York when the electril system failed, ” Gay says. Everybody except them and Gay Tale, who was watchg them. Gay do not only observe and talk wh ordary people, he is an expert at .

Gay’s geni as a wrer is his abily to see thgs om so many pots of view.

“My father was born Calabria, ” Gay says, “which is the poort part of Italy.

THE GAY TALE REAR

“It’s a cy of news and newers, ” Gay says. Gay lls his reportg, “The art of hangg out.

And Gay keeps takg not on shirt boards om nversatns wh men and women om all over. Gay Tale at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

GAY TALE'S SENSE OF WONR

Gay Tale.

By GAY TALESE.

GAY TALE AND A CY OF PERMANENT CHANGE

| Gay Tale, New York.

Wrer Gay Tale lls himself an old guy who is still a newer to the Amerin experience. For 74-year-old Gay Tale, 50 years a New Yorker, much of his view of the world trac back to a cisn his father ma 1922 the old untry.

THE GAY TALE REAR

In the lerary world, Gay Tale has never been a nobody. Long before his words were read around the world and he was a fixture of the New York lerary scene, Gay Tale was one of the few Italian kids what he lls an Irish Catholic parish a prottant town, Ocean Cy, New Jersey. So begs one of my favore nonfictn stori, Gay Tale’s eloquent homage to his cy, “New York Is a Cy of Thgs Unnoticed.

“Lerary legend” (New York) Gay Tale reviss his pneerg reer profilg the many “nobodi” who make New York so fascatg, culmatg wh the strange and rivetg story of Dr.

“New York is a cy of thgs unnoticed, ” a young reporter named Gay Tale wrote sixty years ago.

GAY TALE

Gay Tale’s byle has been synonymo wh legendary portrayals of the cy’s characters, high and low. Gay Tale is known for his darg pursu of "unreportable" stori, for his exhstive rearch, and for his formally elegant style.

One afternoon after his sophomore year high school the assistant ach of his baseball team protted that he was too by to ll the acunt of the gam to the lol newspaper, and the head ach asked Tale to assume this chore. He wrote only 12 articl for Alabama's stunt newspaper, The Crimson-Whe, while tablishg himself as a stunt durg his hman and sophomore years, but the were enough to w him the posn of Crimson-Whe Sports Edor for his junr and senr years. In this role, he immediately transformed his high school "Sportopics" lumn to a more experimental and lerary lumn tled "Sports Gay-zg, " a nsc play on his own name and unnsc nfsn of his voyr role.

GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER

Tale was a neteen-year-old llege sophomore when he attempted his breakthrough first scene a feature story. He often tried to evoke the atmosphere of athlet away om the glory of the playg field, as this 7 November 1951 "Sports Gay-zg" em tled "Sunday Morng bull ssn":. Ristg the hero-worshippg stance of sportswrers like Grantland Rice, Tale began to turn his "Sports Gay-z" toward "losers" and the unnoticed.

Tale had quoted Red Smh his llege "Sports Gay-zg" lumns and wrten parodi of Shakpeare and Edgar Gut. Tale was cricized for failg to clu all aspects of sexualy, such as homosexualy, ct, venereal disease and ntraceptn, and for givg women sendary stat.