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Contents:
- GAY TALE
- GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
- GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD
- GAY TALE TURNS 90: THE FIRE AND THE WORD OF THE MAN WHO REVOLUTNIZED JOURNALISM
- LEGENDARY REPORTER GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE FDS TMP INSPIRG
- WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
- GAY TALE
GAY TALE
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 volkskrant magazine *
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.
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.
GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
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” 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.
GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD
Nearly fifty years after he wrote his most famo story, ’s Gay Tale who has a ld. * gay talese volkskrant magazine *
” About Gay, I say, but you too. 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 TURNS 90: THE FIRE AND THE WORD OF THE MAN WHO REVOLUTNIZED JOURNALISM
Gay Tale Stalked Frank Satra, Joed a Nudist Colony and Liaised Wh a Voyr as Part of His Journalistic Pursus; He Explas Why He Shuns Technology Entirely and Why He Fds Tmp Inspirg. * gay talese volkskrant magazine *
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.
LEGENDARY REPORTER GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE FDS TMP INSPIRG
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. In the Hamptons, Courty of Gay Tale.
WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
“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. 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. “You know, I jt tst Gay, ” she says.
GAY TALE
Nan and Gay were troduced through a iend 1957 and “urted for two and a half years, ” as Nan puts . Her mother, a woman who had social ambns for her dghter, was never crazy about Gay, but she sisted they get engaged if they were gog to see each other exclively.
When Gay went to Rome to wre a piece for The New York Tim Magaze and bled her to jo him, Nan saw her opportuny.
“Gay has asked me to e to Rome to get married.