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Free download The Gay Talese Reader Portraits and Encounters ¶ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Desde ue allá por los años sesenta Gay Talese irrumpiera en el mundo del periodismo para revolucionar sus formas y cambiar para siempre la manera de afrontar un reportaje sus artículos han servido de modelo a generaciones de escritores Ya se trate de historias cotidianas protagonizadas por gente desconocida ue con frecuencia nos resulta curio It s easy to see why and how his writing has inspired countless other longreads and set the standard for nonfiction It s commendable that he wanted to write about the overlooked nonnewsworthy population that is everywhere but rarely taken into account by journalists and other chroniclers of reality And his greatest hits remind me of one of the best editors I ever worked for reminding us that the loser most likely has the better story You most likely can t get to the star so go for the stakeholders instead access is better and they ve got tangential stories to tell And that no apple is perfect there s always a bruise somewhere Glad I finally got to sit down and read Frank Sinatra has a Cold as it definitely sets the bar high for a cleverly told well crafted profile My two favorite in the book were Mr Bad News about a New York Times obit writer or The Loser about boxer Floyd Patterson twice KO ed by Sonny Liston because both did an exceptional job of getting into the head of the main character and making me empathize with them and both packed a punch with such rich details I could see the story unfolding in my head

Free download The Gay Talese Reader Portraits and Encounters ¶ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Frank Sinatra Ernest Hemingway o Peter O’Toole de la política como Kennedy o Fidel Castro o del deporte como Joe DiMaggio Muhammad Alí o Joe Louis se alternan en estas páginas con entrañables recuerdos familiares o los humildes inicios del autor en el mundo del periodismo El nexo de unión es siempre el mismo el inigualable estilo de Tales I tried to imagine Gay Talese physically positioned within each of his stories Okay he s a journalist so he is in effect interviewing subjects with the express intention of writing about them I considered the physical closeness he had to be in their space their semi private space in order to capture a candid moment Then once again I imagined his physical presence then my own my own either as a journalist or a subject That s when I observed the obvious It could only be an unassuming white guy in a suit that could have done what he did at that time Not anyone else of any other color and not a woman Suddenly the mystiue about this guy with a book of compiled stories about celebrities and people of interest was not so mystical after all Granted Gay Talese wrote well by crafting what formerly was an interview into a story but this could only happen with the kind of privileged access he enjoyedThe same types of stories we read describing a day in the life of a black celebrity were usually formulated through second hand telling of an event That is to say during those times the intimate encounters within the semi private circles of blacks were seldom freuented by whites Conversely blacks would have absolutely no access within the private circles of whites some of who were subjects of a Talese story A few cited passages below from the Gay Talese Reader evidence this The Loser And this is how they would probably remember him years from now a dark solitary glistening figure punching in the corner of a forlorn spot at the bottom of a mountain where people once came to have fun until the clubhouse became unfashionable the paint began to peel and the Negroes were allowed in Vogueland Vogue a magazine that has long been the supreme symbol of sophistication for every American female The noses of Vogue heroines are usually long and thin as are the noses of many Vogue editors Notably the first black model on a Vogue cover didn t even happen until 1974 This was Beverly Johnson Looking for Hemingway James Baldwin It didn t take long before I was really no longer a part of them Talese alludes to women s veiled access too Patsy Matthiessen The whole life seemed after a while to be utterly meaninglessAnd I was a Stepin Fetchit in that crowd Joe Louis The King as a Middle Aged Man I m immediately struck by what s missing in this story It s not so much what s said as it is what s not said Joe Lewis was carefully handled throughout his career to bolster his marketability to whites Lessons were taken from the much earlier PR problems of Jack Johnson We see remnants of this in Talese s telling of the story Talese mentions the glamour of the previous wives the now modest finances and time spent on the golf course after retirement However he fails to mention both the exploitative and glorious history preceding Louis middle age Joe Lewis saw little of his fortune This was attributable to greedy managers like Roxborough than to financial recklessness Louis enjoyed the golf course but in order to be there had carved a path for blacks in the PGA I can only guess that Talese was showing the love for Joe Louis and the inroads he carved will forever be loved by ending the story Rose Morgan said nothing just swallowed the rest of her drink Showing here that Roses love or reverence remembrance or regrets didn t need words Ali in Havana Howard Bingham Like Ali he admires what he has seen so far in Cuba There s no racism here and as a black man he has long identified with many of Ali s frustrations and confrontations Gay Talese and his personal background as he described it in Origins of a Nonfiction Writer reminds me that there was something to this suited white guy who modestly presented himself and yet was rewarded with unprecedented access It was Talese the individual that gathered these stories Without his unassuming way and respectful approach I don t think he would have gotten the entr e into the homes of some of his most interesting subjects He says it best the Art of Hanging Out I ve sometimes called it and it is an indispensable part of what motivates my work together with that other element that I have maybe mentioned too much already that gift from my mother curiosity Another noteworthy trait was that Talese s curiosity gravitated to the untold story the subject standing outside the limelight This is probably attributable again to his own sense of being outside the limelight too He mentions in Origins of a Nonfiction Writer that he was too reticent to ask girls out in school and was socially awkward and acne faced The thought of placing himself in social scenarios with the purposefulness of a journalist somehow seemed to be a natural approach toward inclusivenessIn my opinion he had to skirt that fine line between being included and not in order to enjoy the success he experienced throughout his writing career His talent was reading between the lines of his subjects also reading between the lines of the bigger picture in order to find a truer story But what I like most about his story is that Talese was the uintessential rebut to his principal s early branding of him as not college material Kinda makes you rethink college material and makes Talese s father a Rhodes Scholar

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Free download The Gay Talese Reader Portraits and Encounters ¶ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Samente familiar o de perfiles de personajes famosos a los ue en realidad no conocíamos tanto como creíamos Talese es capaz de mostrarnos siempre el detalle invisible ue nos revela los secretos de introducirnos en la escena como si la estuviéramos presenciando de hacernos partícipes de los momentos más inaccesiblesIconos de la cultura como My GOD this man can write