A Town Without Time: Gay Talese's New York
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AlbakiReads Editorial Fourteen reports tracing New York’s public spectacles and hidden lives
Fourteen reports tracing New York’s public spectacles and hidden lives
Gathering fourteen pieces written from the 1950s to the present, this collection maps New York through people and places that often sit outside the usual postcard image of the city. Talese’s subjects range from bridge construction and newspaper offices to apartment-building disasters, alley cats, gangsters, doormen, fashion editors, and music recording sessions. The selection moves between prominent cultural spaces and overlooked corners, using individual occupations, incidents, and social worlds to build a layered record of urban life. Across six decades of reporting, the book presents a changing city while returning to the systems, hierarchies, and unexpected observers that shape its daily character.
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- Readers interested in New York City history and cultural life
- Fans of reported essays and literary journalism
- Readers drawn to profiles of unusual professions, institutions, and city subcultures
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New York CityJournalism and observationUrban changeOverlooked livesCulture and institutions
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Book Overview From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City."Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom...
From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.
"Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso of the novelistic New Journalism." --Wall Street Journal
"They fly in quietly--unnoticed, like the cats, the ants, the doorman with three bullets in his head, and most of the other offbeat wonders in this town without time." --from"New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed," Talese's first Esquire story, 1960
For over six decades, Gay Talese has told New York stories. They are the stories of daring bridge builders, disappearing gangsters, intrepid Vogue editors, unassuming doormen who've seen too much. They are set in the star-studded salons of George Plimpton's apartment, in the tense newsroom of a still burgeoning New York Times, in an electric studio session with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga recording their debut.
With the wit, elegance, and depth of insight that has long characterized his work, Talese's New York reporting showcases a master of the form at his finest, making intelligible the city's vibrant beating pulse, capturing the charming, the eccentric, and the overlooked. Whether prowling the night streets to discover the social hierarchy of alley cats, or uncovering the triumph and terror of building the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, or plunging into the hidden, sordid world of a recently blown-up apartment building, Talese excavates the city around him with a reporter's eye and an artist's flair, crafting delightful, profound, indelible portraits of the people who live there. Spanning the 1950s to today, the fourteen pieces in this collection are a time capsule of what New York once was and still is--Talese proves time and time again that, even as the city changes, his view of it remains as timeless as ever.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 432 | Language: English | Publisher: MARINER BOOKS | ISBN: 0063392186
FormatHardcover
Pages432
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0063392186
EAN9780063392182
PublisherMARINER BOOKS
Publication Date2024-12-03
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.05 Pounds
Length8.3 Inches
Width5.8 Inches
Height1.5 Inches
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