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High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese

Autor Gay Talese
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2017
A selection of classic high points in the illustrious career of Gay Talese."[High Notes]reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made Talese a paragon of the New Journalism." -New York Times Book ReviewAdmired by generations of reporters, Gay Talese has for more than six decades enriched American journalism with an unmatched ability to inhabit the worlds of his subjects. From the article that germinated intoThy Neighbor's Wife,to indelible portraits of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Lady Gaga,High Notesselects the highlights of Talese's signature mode, "the art of hanging out." It's a bold testament to enduring literary craftsmanship and unparalleled cultural observation from "the most important nonfiction writer of his generation" (David Halberstam).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781632867469
ISBN-10: 163286746X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

House author with strong backlist potential:Bloomsbury published Talese'sThe Bridge,The Silent Season of a Hero, andThe Gay Talese Reader.This last has had particularly strong sales, which will surely continue given the author's ongoing prestige.

Notă biografică

Gay Taleseis a journalist and international bestselling author whose works includeThe Bridge,The Kingdom and the Power,Honor Thy Father,Thy Neighbor's Wife,Unto the Sons,A Writer's Life, andThe Voyeur's Motel. Winner of the George Polk Award for career achievement and considered the father of literary journalism, Talese has written forEsquire, theNew Yorker, and theNew York Times, and other publications. He lives in New York City with his wife Nan, the Publisher of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.Lee Gutkind,founder and editor ofCreative Nonfictionmagazine, is Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University.

Recenzii

High Notescontains all the reasons I've been teaching Gay Talese's work to my students for a decade, and all the reasons they love it. There are scenes described in such vivid detail you feel you're standing inside them; peripheral characters whom only Talese would care about and who are far more interesting than the ones in the center; details that no other writer would notice because no one has Talese's eyes and Talese's ears. This is glorious journalism.
Gay Talese once again reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made him a paragon of the New Journalism.
These pieces really amount to superb character studies that unfold less through journalistic quotation than through the novelistic accretion of well-observed details of action and setting. Talese gives readers real life raised to the level of high literature.
[A] career-spanning collection from Gay Talese, one of the country's greatest nonfiction writers . . . Hopping from personal recollections to mob stories to profiles about theNew York Timesnewsroom and stars such as Frank Sinatra,High Notesconsistently showcases Talese's keen eye for detail and insight into his subjects . . . once again a fly on the wall for the reader's enjoyment.
Wonderful and long overdue . . . The stories here are shining examples of a time in publishing history when magazine writing was an art form and Talese its Michelangelo. This reader is a book to come back to again and again.
Whether recounting a workaday game or taking on the monolithic topic of Muhammad Ali . . . Talese's writing possesses so much color and clear description of the world beyond the stadium that even non-sports fans will cheer.