High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese

Author(s): Gay Talese

New Adult Fiction

When Gay Talese left the New York Times in 1965 to write for Esquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility and craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation and an interest in American everyday life--in taboo topics and overlooked truths. During a time when the nation seemed hardly to recognize itself, Talese wrote some of the most illuminating and influential magazine articles of all time, canonical works of New Journalism like "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" that elevated the form and brought to it a cachet and creativity formerly reserved for fiction. Taking its name from Talese's 2011 New Yorker account of a revealing studio session with avant-pop star Lady Gaga and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, High Notes draws from six decades of Talese's work, from his long-form pieces for Esquire to his more autobiographical writings of the eighties and nineties to his twenty-first century reflections on New York, New Yorkers, and the institution of which he is the longtime chronicler, the New York Times. Each one of Talese's masterful books was an extension of an article collected here. High Notes will appeal to fans of those classics and to students of narrative nonfiction, a genre for which Talese has been so instrumental. The book includes an introduction by Creative Nonfiction founder Lee Gutkind.


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Selections from six decades of the illustrious career of Gay Talese, one of the most important nonfiction writers of our time, with an introduction by Lee Gutkind.

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. Publishers Weekly on THE GAY TALESE READER 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. -- starred review Publishers Weekly on THE SILENT SEASON OF A HERO

Gay Talese is a journalist and international bestselling author whose works include The Bridge, The Kingdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbor's Wife, Unto the Sons, A Writer's Life, and in 2016, The Voyeur's Motel. He won the George Polk Award for career achievement in 2008. He lives in New York City with his wife Nan, the Publisher of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.

General Fields

  • : 9781632867469
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Press
  • : 0.457
  • : February 2017
  • : 235mm X 155mm
  • : United States
  • : February 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Gay Talese
  • : Paperback
  • : 1701
  • : 814.6
  • : 272