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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
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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 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 TALE AND A CY OF PERMANENT CHANGE
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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.
ONE ON 1: NEW YORK LERARY GIANT GAY TALE
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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. 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.
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As a young reporter for The New York Tim, 1961 Gay Tale published his first book, New York-A Serendiper's Journey, a seri of vigt and says that began, "New York is a cy of thgs unnoticed. It is a cy wh ts sleepg unr... * gay talese new york is a city of things unnoticed *
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.
THE GAY TALE REAR
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. 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.
THE GAY TALE REAR
When Gay se New York attacked, he do not policize .
“Once I saw New York when the electril system failed, ” Gay says.
THE GAY TALE REAR
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.
GAY TALE'S SENSE OF WONR
“My father was born Calabria, ” Gay says, “which is the poort part of Italy.
GAY TALE AND A CY OF PERMANENT CHANGE
“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.
THE GAY TALE REAR
By GAY TALESE.
| 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.
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In the lerary world, Gay Tale has never been a nobody.
GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
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.