From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.?Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso of the novelistic New Journalism.? ?Wall Street Journal?They fly in quietly?unnoticed, like the cats, the ants, the doorman with three bullets in his head, and most of the other offbeat wonders in this town without time.? ?from ?New York Is a City of Things Unnoticed,? Talese?s first Esquire story, 1960For over six decades, Gay Talese has told New York stories. They are the stories of daring bridge builders, disappearing gangsters, intrepid Vogue editors, unassuming doormen who?ve seen too much. They are set in the star-studded salons of George Plimpton?s apartment, in the tense newsroom of a still burgeoning New York Times,...
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