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A profile of Gay Talese appeared in the April 26, 2009 issue of New York Magazine. It focuses on the book he is writing based on his 50-year marriage. Click here to read it.

In light of the reissue of Gay Talese's classic Thy Neighbor's Wife and the release of Thomas Maier's book Masters of Sex, a Newsweek article dated April 27, 2009 explores the "minor Aquarian revival" of interest in America's sexual revolution. See the article here, and read a related interview with Talese here.

On April 14, 2009, HarperCollins reissued Thy Neighbor's Wife and Honor Thy Father as part of its series The Timeless Classic. The paperbacks are newly updated, with introductions by Peter Hamill (Honor Thy Father) and Katie Roiphe (Thy Neighbor's Wife). Gay Talese discussed their return to print with The New York Times and read from one of the new afterwords for Vanity Fair. Click here to listen.

On April 1, 2009, Gay Talese spoke at Yale as a John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer. Read the Yale Daily News's coverage of the event.

Gay Talese was recently named the winner of a George Polk Award for career achievement. The awards, presented by Long Island University, are considered among the top prizes in U.S. journalism. They were created in 1949 in honor of CBS reporter George W. Polk, who was killed while covering the Greek civil war, and will be awarded at an April 16 luncheon in Manhattan. Read more here.

Gay Talese has encouraged the homeless to cash in on Obama's stimulus package. He blogged about the experience for the New York Times. Read the New York Post's take here.

Gay Talese contributed an original essay about Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, to The American Journey of Barack Obama, a book by The Editors of Life Magazine. The essay, "About Ann," appears on page 151 and features a picture of the President-elect and his mother in 1968. The book was released by Little, Brown on October 7, 2008 and has become a New York Times bestseller. You can find in on Amazon.

Gay Talese contemplates our affinity for premium denim during a time of financial ruin in a new essay entitled "Let Them Wear Diesel Jeans." Read it on Tina Brown's website, The Daily Beast.

Gay Talese's legendary 1966 Esquire magazine essay, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," is printed in its entirety in a new book marking the 10-year anniversary of Frank Sinatra's passing, Life: Remembering Sinatra 10 Years Later (TimeLife Books). You can find in on Amazon.

Gay Talese has published an article in Vanity Fair about the decline of the intimate craft of men's custom tailoring.

Gay Talese has published an article in the New York Observer about the last day of the New York Times building at 229 West 43rd Street.

Gay Talese has published an article in Newsweek about the children of the famous Mafia chieftan Joseph Bonanno.

A Writer's Life was released in trade paperback by The Random House Publishing Group on July 10, 2007.

Podcast: CUNYradio, Gay Talese: Father of The New Journalism, June 5, 2007
In an engrossing talk, as part of the Kingsborough Community College's Bestselling Author Series, Gay Talese explains the importance of in-person interviews and why his researching style continues to work for him. (n.b.: requires Quicktime)

Video Interview: New York 1, One on 1: Literary Giant Gay Talese, October 24, 2006
In a New York 1 interview with Budd Mishkin, Gay Talese recounts some of his experiences in his fifty years of writing. (n.b.: requires RealOne Player)

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