When New Journalism Was New: Gay Tale on His Legendary Esquire Profile of Frank Satra ‹ Lerary Hub

Contents:

• WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL
• GAY TALE NOW SAYS HE IS NOT DISAVOWG HIS NEW BOOK, ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’
• GAY TALE DISAVOWS HIS DISAVOWAL OF HIS NEW BOOK
• GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
• GAY TALE
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• WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.
• OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE
• GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”

WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA

Gay Tale’s outle for “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” sketched on one of his tramark shirt boards, 1966.

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GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL

Gay Tale had somethg to show me.

GAY TALE NOW SAYS HE IS NOT DISAVOWG HIS NEW BOOK, ‘THE VOYR’S MOTEL’

In full view of a New York magaze wrer who’d been sent to profile Tale, a massse “took hold of Gay’s penis as lmly as if had been a pool cue” and playfully threatened to pate . The Serendiper’s JourneyGay Tale’s eye for tail turned out to be not only his strength but also his greatt weakns. 2016 was a bad year for most people, but was pecially so for Gay Tale.

GAY TALE DISAVOWS HIS DISAVOWAL OF HIS NEW BOOK

Nohels, was a Gay Tale piece, and so was expand to a book by the same name and published July of 2016. 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.

GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM

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.

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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!

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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.

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.

WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.

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.

OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE

In the Hamptons, 1987.Photo: Courty of Gay Tale. “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? When I ask Gay if he is at all worried about draggg Nan and their relatnship and even their sex life back to the spotlight, he says he’s not.

GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”

“You know, I jt tst Gay,” she says. Nan and Gay were troduced through a iend 1957 and “urted for two and a half years,” as Nan puts .