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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.

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NOT OM UNRGROUND: GAY TALE’S OFFICE

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Unr the townhoe where the legendary wrer Gay Tale and his wife, Nan, have lived for over half a century is what Tale lls his “subterranean thk tank.

A TOUR OF GAY TALE'S UNRGROUND BUNKER

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STYLE HALL-OF-FAMER GAY TALE TAK US INSI HIS AMAZG TOWNHOE, SHOWS US HIS SU COLLECTN, REVEALS INCREDIBLE TAILORG TRICK

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 .

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

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GAY TALE AND THE FE ART OF HANGG OUT

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.

STYLE HALL-OF-FAMER GAY TALE TAK US INSI HIS AMAZG TOWNHOE

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.

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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. ” About Gay, I say, but you too.

ONE ON 1: NEW YORK LERARY GIANT GAY TALE

Sudnly, Gay pip up, a stern edge to his voice, givg an orr.

” Nan giv me the digs and then Gay says, “Good!

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