Gay Talese Audio & Video

The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art.

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark best seller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado.

The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art....

Gay Talese discusses his newest submission to the literary world, The Gay Talese Reader.

Literary Legend Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world's hidden characters.

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE magazine to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, the magazine now focuses its lens on Barack Obama.

American icon Gay Talese, a former reporter for the New York Times, magazine columnist and best-selling author shares tips on his craft with journalist Dean Nelson of Point Loma Nazarene University.

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.