The New York Apartment - Gay Tale Rells Acquirg His Current East Si Apartment -- New York Magaze - Nymag

Contents:

• NOT OM UNRGROUND: GAY TALE’S OFFICE
• A TOUR OF GAY TALE'S UNRGROUND BUNKER
• STYLE HALL-OF-FAMER GAY TALE TAK US INSI HIS AMAZG TOWNHOE, SHOWS US HIS SU COLLECTN, REVEALS INCREDIBLE TAILORG TRICK
• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL
• GAY TALE AND THE FE ART OF HANGG OUT
• STYLE HALL-OF-FAMER GAY TALE TAK US INSI HIS AMAZG TOWNHOE
• GAY TALE
• ONE ON 1: NEW YORK LERARY GIANT GAY TALE

NOT OM UNRGROUND: GAY TALE’S OFFICE

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. Want to take a tour of Gay Tale's “subterranean thk tank? If there were a hall of fame for stylish journalists, Gay Tale wouldn't jt be — would be named after him.

Gay Tale had somethg to show me.

A TOUR OF GAY TALE'S UNRGROUND BUNKER

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 .

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

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

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 AND THE FE ART OF HANGG OUT

” 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.

Sudnly, Gay pip up, a stern edge to his voice, givg an orr. ” Nan giv me the digs and then Gay says, “Good!

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

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.

GAY TALE

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.

ONE ON 1: NEW YORK LERARY GIANT GAY TALE

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.

Nan told Gay: “It’s your book, ’s your style of rearch.