Playboy Advisor Debuts on SIRIUS XM's Playboy Radio Channel Nov 19, 2009
Guests scheduled to appear include everyone from Dr. Ruth Westheimer, to Xaviera "The Happy Hooker" Hollander, writer Gay Talese, anthropologist Helen Fisher, porn legend Vanessa del Rio, fashion designer Alan Flusser, cigar aficionado Aaron Sigmond, sex pioneer Betty Dodson and New York Times scent critic Chandler Burr. Rowe, 42, a senior editor at Playboy, has been the Advisor since 1994, responding personally each month to hundreds of emails and letters from readers before selecting 15 to 20... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Author Weisberg’s Frank approach Oct 2, 2009
Gay Talese said he always spent a lot of time with the person he was writing about, whether it was Joe DiMaggio or Joe Bonanno of the mafia, and someone asked him a similar question and he said, I only write about people that I like and admire. Q. What s one thing that people might not know about the congressman. (Boston Globe)
Brooklyn Dodger Sep 21, 2009
HBO s Bored to Death review : The New Yorker (New Yorker)
Why Vogue Continues to Disappoint Me Sep 12, 2009
Gay Talese once wrote that the women of Vogue speak in italics and swear in French. Fast-forward to 2003 to , Lauren Weisbergers bestselling roman clef about her former boss, current Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. (Slate)
New book examines Pat Tillman's death Sep 12, 2009
He practices what Robert Boynton of New York University calls "New New Journalism" - intensively reported and beautifully written nonfiction that builds on the work of the earlier "New Journalists," such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese and John McPhee. Boynton calls Krakauer the "gold standard" of New New Journalism because of his commitment to reporting, climbing Everest for "Into Thin Air" and spending five months in Afghanistan for "Where Men Win Glory.". (AZCentral)
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The Audio Book Club on Gay Talese Jul 17, 2009
Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe discuss Gay Talese's Thy Neighbor's Wife ... To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of Gay Talese's , click the arrow on the player below ... This month, the Audio Book Club looks at Gay Talese's a panoramic cultural history of sex in America that concentrates mostly on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s. (Slate)
The Audio Book Club on John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor Jun 19, 2009
Our critics discuss John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor. - By Meghan O'Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Katie Roiphe - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
In Museum's Sites May 13, 2009
"Smile and wave," he told guests including Jay McInerney, Gay Talese and Four Seasons co-owner Julian Niccolini. "You're all on the enemy list now.". (New York Post -- Gossip)
Life After Newspapers May 12, 2009
Giving up the daily newspaper habit proved easy for many New Yorkers, Gay Talese writes in his book : They "watched more television, or read more news magazines more thoroughly, or books, or discovered that New York seemed a more normal and placid place without the daily barrage of blazing headlines from Hearst, the rumored gangland shooting in the News, the threatening international strife in the Times.". According to the New York Times (subscription required), circulation of the Brooklyn... (Slate)
Even 'the Boogie Man' can't stop this senior Apr 30, 2009
I might not be as talented as Gay Talese or Mark Bowden, but I will always vow to do my best. You -- the reader -- are one of the most important people in my life and I will always strive to inform, report and entertain. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Surprise Reunion Feb 17, 2009
Famed writer Gay Talese stopping in for dinner last night at Elaine s to wish Ms. Kaufman a happy birthday Rita Cosby was at another table, on a busy Sunday night. Mira Sorvino on her way to Sweetie Pie, the hot new eatery on Greenwich Avenue. (Fox News)
Times' Paul Pringle wins George Polk Award for SEIU stories Feb 17, 2009
Gay Talese, journalist and author, George Polk Career Award. The awards are named for a CBS news reporter who was killed in Greece in 1948. (Los Angeles Times)
