Gay Talese

Gay Talese is a journalist and the author of Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener.

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  1. Gay Talese: I Wanted to Write About Nobodies

    Growing up in a small town on the Jersey Shore in the late 1940s, I dreamed of someday working for a great newspaper. But I did not necessarily want to write news.

    Gay Talese
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