I've been reading Gay Talese since the beginning of time. Late sixties when I got my first subscription to the New Yorker. I love the little dig at Iowa. I've been harping on the whole MFA writing process as the end of literature for years. Talese is a Salon goer and writer. I've always felt I was tagging along on an extraordinary experience.
Phenomenal.
Nazaryan pours liquid gold over a glorious subject. He 'sees' into the mind and heart, worthily. Gay Talese is no doubt quietly happy.
This is great piece, with a beautiful hint of melancholia. Thank you and well done.
Beautiful. Made my day.
What a great piece of writing about a great writer. Well done, sir.
I've been reading Gay Talese since the beginning of time. Late sixties when I got my first subscription to the New Yorker. I love the little dig at Iowa. I've been harping on the whole MFA writing process as the end of literature for years. Talese is a Salon goer and writer. I've always felt I was tagging along on an extraordinary experience.
Gracious, elegant, and precise. Bravo.
Brilliant empathetic description! Right there with you!
Some writers describe New York. Talese reported it into myth. This review reminds me why we still need sentences cut from that same immaculate cloth.