Gay Talese: An Italian-American Literary Journey
In 1888, Talese’s grandfather, Gaetano, sailed to America in 1889, finding work as a mason in Pennsylvania. He returned to marry but returned to the U.S. without his wife and son Joseph. His father, Joseph, a 16-year-old tailor’s apprentice from Calabria, came to Ocean City, N.J., eventually starting his tailoring and dry-cleaning operation. He met...
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Gay Talese sulla letteratura in America e il lungo “mutismo” degli italoamericani
In questo breve segmento di video della Conferenza su Frank Sinatra, organizzata dal professor Stanislao Pugliese della Hofstra University nel 2015, il famoso scrittore e giornalista Gay Talese spiega al pubblico come gli italoamericani agli inizi del XIXmo secolo, non possedessero “la tradizione di scrivere romanzi.” Con l’arrivo nel nuovo paese,...
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The Lonely Scrivener: GAY TALESE
Gay Talese tells me it feels strange not to begin a Monday morning in “the Bunker.” By this he means his Manhattan workspace. At eighty-five, the author has lost none of his formidable discipline. His 2016 book, The Voyeur’s Motel, has been picked up by Hollywood, and his current projects include a new look at Frank Sinatra, written with Pete Hamil...
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