In 1966, Esquire magaze wrer Gay Tale's story "Satra Has a Cold" started a revolutn journalism -- a new genre of reportg dubbed "New Journalism." Nearly two generatns later, Slate foundg edor Michael Ksley talks wh Tale about the legacy and future of the genre.
Contents:
- GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD
- GAY TALE: 'SATRA HAS A COLD'
- GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
- FROM GAY TALE’S “HIGH NOT”: “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
- 50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
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. * frank sinatra has a cold by gay talese *
In the wter of 1965, wrer Gay Tale arrived Los Angel wh an assignment om Esquire to profile Frank Satra. On the send floor of the 21 Club, behd the phalanx of pated lawn jockey statu that le the balny of the rtrant, a speakeasy s youth, the wrer Gay Tale stood biddg his dner guts good night.
“But Nan and Gay would have the parti... The publisher Nan Tale, Gay’s wife of 56 years, was there. By the time the hour had grown late and the room thned to jt the Wolf and the Tal and the Taschen crowd, word had spread: Gay Tale had a ld.
GAY TALE: 'SATRA HAS A COLD'
* frank sinatra has a cold by gay talese *
And not that Gay Tale wh a ld sounds the kd of alarm that did for Frank Satra Los Angel half a century ago, about to tape a natnal special:Satra wh a ld is Pisso whout pat, Ferrari whout fuel—only worse. For the mon ld robs Satra of that unsurable jewel, his voice, cuttg to the re of his nfince, and affects not only his own psyche but also seems to e a kd of psychosomatic nasal drip wh dozens of people who work for him, drk wh him, love him, pend on him for their own welfare and Tale tographs the signg pag for Frank Satra Has a Cold his "bunker, " New York Cy, 2015Gay Tale wh a ld—a flu on s way out, whatever—meant that he would ask around for a lozenge.
GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
Gay Tale reads om his classic 1966 Esquire article, which he followed around Satra at the height of Satra's power. * frank sinatra has a cold by gay talese *
Photo: © 2015 and urty of Gay Tale“Satra” was not the first piece of New Journalism that Tale wrote, nor is his favore. ” Gay Tale, down the road Ocean Cy, the immaculate attire beftg the son of a drs shop owner and the aforementned tailor: “Drsg well mattered to my fay.
Photo: Courty of TaschenIf was not already evint that night that, ld or no ld, Gay Tale—a lerary celebry his own right, well documented, and self-aware—was the Frank Satra this scenar, was beg ever more so. Photo: © 2015 and urty of Gay TaleThree nights after the 21 Club dner: upstairs the Rare Book Room of the Strand bookstore among the French L Ameris by Robert Frank and the first edn Denis Johnsons. Still everyone listened raptly, as Gay Tale livered more Tale lore.
Gay Tale: 'Satra Has a Cold'.
FROM GAY TALE’S “HIGH NOT”: “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
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And when Esquire magaze wrer Gay Tale reunted that night his 1966 story "Satra Has a Cold, " he started a revolutn journalism -- a new genre of reportg dubbed "New Journalism.
Gay Tale reads om his classic 1966 Esquire article, which he followed around Satra at the height of Satra's power. (10 mut) ByGay Tale.
More by Gay TaleView all. Gay Tale liv on the East Si of Manhattan, a four-story brownstone he moved to 1958, at age 26.
50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
Gay Tale, Frank Satra Has a Cold, Creative Nonfictn, No. 4, Creative Nonfictn Classics (1995), pp. 62-100 * frank sinatra has a cold by gay talese *
Gay Tale: Harold Hay, Esquire‘s edor, gave me a one-year ntract to do six piec. ” “Look, Gay, ” said Hay, “’s all set up.
Where do this fall your hierarchy of Gay Tale piec? By Gay Tale. People say, “Oh, Gay, how did you get that?
Every J school has embraced Gay Tale's 1966 Esquire wre-around on Satra as a gold standard New Journalism profile-wrg. Fifty years later, Tale himself seems slightly puzzled by s acclaim. * frank sinatra has a cold by gay talese *
But when Gay Tale wr about Italian-Amerins, there are very few people this untry who n tell me more than I know about that subject.
And when I see this guy — Vcent DeRosa, who I hadn’t met and never saw after that — I, Gay Tale, n unrstand . ” — Gay TaleIn the wter of 1965, wrer Gay Tale set out for Los Angel wh an assignment om Esquire to wre a major profile on Frank Satra.