And this is his outline for the famous magazine piece, "Frank Sinatra Has A Cold," as shared by the Paris Review which also has a neat (though not new) interview with him up. His collected pieces in PORTRAITS AND ENCOUNTERS seem familiar only because he created those longer magazine forms journalists are still using. Super-sweet. (Via Kung Fu Grippe.)
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I sometimes receive my grandmother's cast-off copies of the Paris Review, and that one was one. I particularly enjoyed the vision of Talese putting on outerwear, walking to his basement office, and removing it as though he had commuted.
I also enjoyed the Tad Friend essay--although the more I learn about Mr. Friend, the more it sounds like all does is write about is himself and his relationship to WASPiness.
He also writes about entertainment in the New Yorker -- one of his subjects lambasted him for covering Hollywood from the front seat of Brooklyn.
Good for him to branch out since his WASP memoir covers his whole life. I liked it, though; it was more sociological than myopic, which was a good choice.
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