Literary legend (New York) Gay Talese revisits his pioneering career profiling the many nobodies who make New York so fascinating, culminating with the strange and riveting story of Dr. Nicholas Bartha, who blew up his Upper East Side brownstoneand himselfrather than give up his beloved patch of NYC real estate.New York is a city of things unnoticed, a young reporter named Gay Talese wrote sixty years ago. He would spend the rest of his legendary career defying that statement by noticing those details others missed, celebrating the people most reporters overlooked, understanding that it was through these minor characters that the epic story of New York and of America unfolded.Inspiredby Melvilles great short story Bartleby the Scrivener, Talese now remembers the unforgettable nobodies he has profiled in his pioneering careerfrom theNew York Timess anonymous obituary writer to Frank Sinatras...
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