Gay Tale’s ntroversial words: An annotated transcript - The Boston Globe

Contents:

• WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
• GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM
• GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
• GAY TALE AND THE PROBLEM WH NEW JOURNALISM
• LERARY JOURNALIST GAY CROSSWORD CLUE
• LEGENDARY REPORTER GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE FDS TMP INSPIRG
• WE ASKED A PUTER PROGRAM TO IMATE GAY TALE’S WRG. THEN WE ASKED TALE WHAT HE THOUGHT.
• ASK THE ETHICIST: HOW BIG ARE THE PROBLEMS WH GAY TALE’S BOOK?
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE ULDN'T NAME A FEMALE JOURNALIST OF HIS GENERATN WHO SPIRED HIM AT TALK, SPARKG OUTRAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
• THE ETHIL DILEMMAS RAISED BY GAY TALE’S LATT ARTICLE
• GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL
• OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE
• GAY TALE HAS A LADY PROBLEM -- HE N’T THK OF ANY FEMALE WRERS THAT SPIRED HIM
• COOL: JOURNALIST GAY TALE CANNOT NAME ONE WOMAN WRER WHO INSPIR HIM
• CREDIBILY CONCERNS OVERSHADOW RELEASE OF GAY TALE'S NEW BOOK
• GAY TALE STAYS TOO LONG AT 'THE VOYR'S MOTEL'
• GAY TALE: ON WHAT ENDUR SPORTS WRG AMID CHANGE
• GAY TALE: WRITER AT WORK
• GAY TALE’S NTROVERSIAL WORDS: AN ANNOTATED TRANSCRIPT
• THE SILENT SEASON OF A HERO : THE SPORTS WRG OF GAY TALE
• GAY TALE: KEV SPACEY ACCER SHOULD ‘SUCK UP’
• TWEETS CRICIZE GAY TALE FOR MENTS ABOUT WOMEN WRERS

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

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GAY TALE: PNEER OF NEW JOURNALISM

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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. 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. ” 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.

GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM

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. Clarke’s, Gay spied a neon sign above a buildg on Lexgton Avenue near 59th Street that read LIVE NUDE MODELS.

GAY TALE AND THE PROBLEM WH NEW JOURNALISM

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. Nan has said the past that she has not, though Gay, through y hts the prs, would perhaps like to believe otherwise. 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.

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.

”) Then she lled Gay’s parents and asked them to send his birth certifite to the New York Tim bure Rome and bought a one-way ticket on Alalia. ” Gay n still work up a h outrage about what he lls the “Showdown Rome, ” but ’s upled wh a dose of admiratn for Nan’s temery.

LERARY JOURNALIST GAY CROSSWORD CLUE

” Jarratt eventually married and then divorced an Italian film director, and she and Gay rema iends. Pamela starts to talk to me about her sister’s photography, and Gay, no longer the center of attentn, gets bored and terpts her.

LEGENDARY REPORTER GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE FDS TMP INSPIRG

Still holdg her bags, still wearg her trench at, she and Gay engage a hilar mix of high-end lerary talk, uple shorthand, and gentle argument. Gay and I head to Br, their neighborhood spot jt a few doors down, where he and Nan are to meet old iends: the actor Ben Gazzara, his wife Elke, and Midge Richardson, the former edor--chief of Seventeen.

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

” Earlier, she had lamented Gay’s nstant need for social engagement: “A tuna-fish sandwich wh the dogs and Masterpiece Theatre—that’s my ia of heaven. Gay, who is now out of his seat and leang agast the wall next to our table takg all of this , has the most cur look on his face.

The guar player starts to “Gran, Gran, Gran, ” a popular song Italy that reached number one 1972, the same year Gay began to work on Thy Neighbor’s Wife.

ASK THE ETHICIST: HOW BIG ARE THE PROBLEMS WH GAY TALE’S BOOK?

” In almost every sense – not jt his attire – Gay Tale, who will turn 85 next week, is a remnant of another generatn. The Esquire issue wh Gay Tale's story about Frank Satra on the 1965, Esquire magaze assigned him to terview Frank Satra. Wrer Gay Tale wh wife Nan posg for a photo on October 6, 1971 New York, New Santi Visalli, Getty ImagAnother world I met wh Tale a few days before last Christmas his Manhattan apartment.

” Gay Tale pos for a portra at his home Midtown Manhattan, December 13, Natan DvirOn his first day office.

” Gay Tale, left, is prent at the filmg of 'Honor Thy Father, ' a film based on his book, at the Zo Bakery shop ont on Bleecker Street New York, Dec. ” Gay Tale pos for a portra at his home Midtown Manhattan, December 13, Natan DvirDidn’t ed to be important to be patrtic?

GAY TALE

I ask about the tim when the boundari between Gay Tale the person and Gay Tale the wrer have bee blurred. To do so, I turned to one of the most famo piec of journalism the 20th century: Gay Tale’s “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” which ran Esquire an exemplar of “New Journalism, ” the piece b lorful observatn wh immersive reportg. I didn’t want to be the guy to tell Gay Tale a puter jt wrote sentenc that uld possibly stand for his.

Women wrers weren't spirg to a young Gay Tale bee they weren't terted "unted" or "anti-social" typ, the lerary journalist said Saturday to an dience filled wh female was speakg about his illtr reer at a Boston Universy nference on journalism lled "The Power of Narrative" when he was asked by an dience member at the end of his talk which women journalists spired him.

GAY TALE ULDN'T NAME A FEMALE JOURNALIST OF HIS GENERATN WHO SPIRED HIM AT TALK, SPARKG OUTRAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

I feel like he's not gettg a fair shake here, " Zuckoff said fense of the legendary don't wre good NF bc they don't feel fortable talkg to strangers, Gay Tale tells largely female journo dience #narrativeBU— Amanda Katz (@katzish) April 2, 2016.

THE ETHIL DILEMMAS RAISED BY GAY TALE’S LATT ARTICLE

Gay Tale was all good until he started talkg about how women wrers don't like to hang around unr-ted, seedier typ. "Many women walked out of the #gaytale talk, " tweeted journalist Michelle hashtag #womengaytalhouldread was born on Twter followg Tale's remarks, givg ers the opportuny to throw out nam of women wrers the lerary in should Published: Apr 02, 2016 at 1:46 pm.

GAY TALE: THE NEW YORK OBSERVER

The journalist says nothg about this sordid bs for the urse of their relatnship, the motel owner tells the journalist somethg even more shockg: that he has wnsed the murr of one of his 's not the plot of a novel, but the actual experience of Gay Tale, the famed wrer and one of the pneers of a lerary style lled New Journalism.

Gay Tale helped lnch lerary journalism 1966 when Esquire published his profile “Frank Satra Has a Cold. Inved by the Nieman Foundatn, Gay Tale recently spoke at Harvard’s Wrers at Work seri nversatn wh Esquire wrer at large Chris Jon.

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

Gay Tale wh Tony Danza at the New York Athletic Club for Table 4 Wrers Foundatn, March 7, 2013, by Mike Coppola/Getty Imag. 'High Not' ntas all the reasons I've been teachg Gay Tale's work to my stunts at Yale for a , and all the reasons they love . Gore Vidal, Gay Tale, San Sontag and Norman Mailer read Gee Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan Hell" a one-night performance benefg the Actor's Stud at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recal Hall, Febary 15, 1993.

Gay Tale, the famed journalist and thor of books such as “Honor Thy Father” and “Unto the Sons, ” told an dience at a Boston Universy nference that he uldn’t name a sgle female journalist who spired him, the Boston Globe a qutn-and-answer ssn at the “Power of Narrative Wrg” nference, an dience member asked Tale which female journalists spired his wrg. The timg seems remarkably bad, nsirg charg of sexism after his remarks ’s remarks at the nference spired a Twter hashtag, #womengaytalhouldread, wh ers suggtg wrers like Ja Mallm, San Sontag, Ldy Wt and San Orlean, among webse Btle ran a rponse tled “5 Kickass Female Journalists Gay Tale Should Read Up On, Pronto, ” which clud suggtns like Gloria Steem, Franc FzGerald and Betty Sunday, Tale told the Associated Prs that he had misunrstood the qutn, and thought he was beg asked which female journalists fluenced him when he was young.

Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep short by simply answerg the key qutns:Can you list the top facts and stats about Gay Tale?

OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE

Summarize this article for a 10 years oldSHOW ALL QUESTIONSGaetano "Gay" Tale (; born Febary 7, 1932)[1] is an Amerin wrer.

At an April 2 nference held at Boston Universy, lerary journalist Gay Tale remarked to his dience that he uld not name a sgle woman wrer who spired him.

”Unsurprisgly, the remarks—and, not to mentn, flagrantly unrmed generalizatns—have been met wh acute backlash, and the news has traveled rapidly across social hashtag #womengaytalhouldread is also play on Twter, should you re to offer Mr. Gay Tale is a journalist and ternatnal bt-sellg thor whose works clu The Bridge (Walker & Company 2003), The Kgdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbors Wife, and Unto the Sons.

GAY TALE HAS A LADY PROBLEM -- HE N’T THK OF ANY FEMALE WRERS THAT SPIRED HIM

Credibily Concerns Overshadow Release Of Gay Tale's New Book NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks wh Pl Farhi of the Washgton Post about Gay Tale's new book, The Voyr's Hotel. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks wh Pl Farhi of the Washgton Post about Gay Tale's new book, The Voyr's Hotel. But I have to say, I don't thk this book is up to the same standard as that and many of the other great piec that Gay Tale has wrten.

This article first appeared on The orr to report on a motel-owng voyr who for years secretly spied on guts havg sex, wrer Gay Tale agreed to not intify the motelier, Gerald Foos. Dick Lehr, Boston UniversyGay Tale has been cricized for not notifyg thori about Gerald Foos's privacy vasns, as well as Foos's eyewns acunt of a murr apparently mted 1977 Room 10.

COOL: JOURNALIST GAY TALE CANNOT NAME ONE WOMAN WRER WHO INSPIR HIM

That's the issue Gay Tale's story about the Manor Hoe my opn, Tale was plic Gerald Foos's vlatn of his guts' privacy, and not only bee the ial reportg of the story he climbed to the motel attic wh s owner and watched a young uple havg failg to report Foos's actns—eher an immediate story or to thori—Tale enabled Foos's uhil and, ed, illegal actns to ntue unabated for at least 15 years longer. He tails exactly how the motel's viewg platform was nstcted and how succsful was hidg Foos's 's one of many aspects of the story that, I spect, will have journalism ethics profsors discsg —as an example of behavr to avoid—for years to Slippery Slope of RatnalizatnRsell Frank, Pennsylvania State UniversyWhen I read about Gay Tale's relatnship wh Gerald Foos, I thought of a character a journalism ethics vio game dodgg one fireball after another his pursu of a juicy, Foos cl to intify himself his early munitns wh Tale.

Early October Gay Tale me to the Boston Athenam to celebrate publitn of “The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Wrg of Gay Tale. Edor’s note: On Wednday, the New York Tim published an article, tled “Gay Tale Go Through the Twter Wrger, ” that referenced our reportg about Gay Tale’s ments to New York Tim Magaze staff wrer Nikole Hannah-Jon.

CREDIBILY CONCERNS OVERSHADOW RELEASE OF GAY TALE'S NEW BOOK

At the time, stg an dorium at Boston Universy (BU) at the Power of Narrative nference, she simply felt cur about somethg the keynote speaker, wrer Gay Tale, seemed to have left out.

Michael Rosenwald, a staff wrer for The Washgton Post whose work has also appeared The New Yorker and Esquire, is the edor of a new anthology, THE SILENT SEASON OF A HERO: THE SPORTS WRITING OF GAY TALESE, which will be published this month by Walker & Co.

GAY TALE STAYS TOO LONG AT 'THE VOYR'S MOTEL'

J., paper, where he began verg sports high school; his piec om the Universy of Alabama stunt newspaper, cludg his “Sports Gay-zg” lumns; his greatt sports piec om The New York Tim the 1950s and ’60s; and, of urse, the memorable Esquire profil of Floyd Patterson, Joe DiMagg and Muhammad Ali.

GAY TALE: ON WHAT ENDUR SPORTS WRG AMID CHANGE

In an e-mail to me Monday, morator Tom Fiedler, who is an of BU’s llege of munitn, wrote:“I rema nvced that, lackg this broar ntext, his rponse was wily misnsted, though unrstandably if some of those who were upset weren’t faiar wh the reportg methods Gay had employed dog ‘Thy Neighbor’s Wife. ”Stg there, I was thkg of all the female wrers of his generatn who not only talked to strangers but trampled barriers: the late Mary McGrory, the pneerg Washgton rrponnt; Gloria Steem, who went unrver as a Playboy bunny; Edna Buchanan, dubbed the “queen of crime” who never met a vlent murr she didn’t maybe he wasn’t spired by them, but don’t generalize that women shy away om grtier Tale had a senr moment, women on Twter filled the void wh #womengaytalhouldread.

Photo: Peter Kramer/APIn his forthg book, "The Voyr's Motel, " acclaimed journalist and nonfictn thor Gay Tale chronicl the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guts at his Colorado motel om the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.

In the April 11, 2016, issue of The New Yorker, the fabled journalist Gay Tale, at the sprightly age of 84, published a luridly provotive article entled “The Voyr’s Motel. The filmmakers, Myl Kane and Josh Koury, are too enthralled wh the pun of their tle: The film is about a pulsive voyr — but Gay Tale, the man reportg on the voyr, is a voyr too! There are only a few journalists Ameri who are so teemed — and well-drsed — that they atta the stat of aristocrats, and Gay Tale is one of them.

GAY TALE: WRITER AT WORK

In this film, journalist and wrer, Gay Tale, reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly spied on his guts g particularly signed ceilg vents.

In the wter of 1965, wrer Gay Tale arrived Los Angel wh an assignment om Esquire to profile Frank Satra.

GAY TALE’S NTROVERSIAL WORDS: AN ANNOTATED TRANSCRIPT

The Serendiper’s JourneyGay Tale’s eye for tail turned out to be not only his strength but also his greatt weakns. Nohels, was a Gay Tale piece, and so was expand to a book by the same name and published July of 2016.

Gayle Kg, -anchor of CBS This Morng and also bt iend to Oprah Wey, who both acts and served as one of the producers of Selma, morated a Q&A that took place durg the luncheon.

THE SILENT SEASON OF A HERO : THE SPORTS WRG OF GAY TALE

Prent at the rerdg ssn was the great journalist Gay Tale, who documented the entire proceedgs for an article published The New Yorker September. Vii, 308 pag: 21 cm"One of Ameri's most acclaimed wrers and journalists, Gay Tale has been fascated by athlet throughout his life. Veteran journalist Gay Tale is beg slammed for sympathetic ments he reportedly ma about actor Kev Spacey.

Interview wh Gay Tale by CBS rrponnt, Ra Braver: a seven-mute profile on Gay Tale and also refers to Nan, his wife, and other matters. Gay Tale, a fg figure lerary journalism, here renstcts the mentaly of journalists the 1950s, when his reer began. Gay Tale discs the signifince of The Boxer at Rt, an ancient masterpiece hoed the Natnal Mm of Rome, for Eni Vio.

For The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, Gay Tale giv a tour of his bunker, explas his wrg procs, and reflects on why he beme a "man of rerd. Gay Tale ss down wh Dan Rather for an -pth look at how he ntu to create profil for major publitns that are jt as vibrant and h as the stori he produced nearly 50 years ago. Gay Tale discs the art of the profile, drawg exampl om his newt piece The New Yorker about opera sger Mara Poplavskaya, as well as his classic Esquire say "Frank Satra Has a Cold, " wh Adam Harrison Levy at the D-Cr partment at the School of Visual Arts.

GAY TALE: KEV SPACEY ACCER SHOULD ‘SUCK UP’

Gay Tale speaks at Pot Loma Nazarene Universy San Diego wh the journalism faculty's Dean Nelson while on a book tour for A Wrer's Life. Interview: "Gay Tale's Favroe Marti Jot" The New York Post an terview by Michael Kaplan (Febary 2017). Profile:Legendary Reporter Gay Tale explas why he fds Tmp spirg" Haaretz Magaze, Moran Sharir (Febary 2017).

TWEETS CRICIZE GAY TALE FOR MENTS ABOUT WOMEN WRERS

Interview: Gay Tale, "Style In, " article by Derrell Hartman Village Voice's special-issue magaze "Sheer".

Interview: In their ver story, Jocks & Nerds terviews Gay Tale about his long reer as a non-fictn wrer. Interview: Fifty years later, Gay Tale remisc about the nstctn of the Verrazano Bridge wh the New York Tim. Interview: Gay Tale talks about Roger Sterlg, Mad Men, and the Sexual Revolutn wh New York Magaze's Vulture blog.

Interview: Gay Tale produc an annotated versn of "Frank Satra Has a Cold, " his semal piece for Esquire, wh Elon Green at Nieman Storyboard. Interview: Cy & State Managg Edor Jon Lentz terviews Gay Tale about the lorful field of ndidat vyg to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Interview: The Oxford Amerin asks Gay Tale, "What did you learn on the streets that you didn't learn journalism school?