Gay Talese

Talese is one of the fathers of the 1960's-era New Journalism, without which it's not clear This American Life would ever have come to be.

Stories, tributes, and attempts to understand the Chairman of the Board.

Tue, Jan 31

On last week's show, we took up the subject of "self-deportation," the new, supposedly gentler...

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Sat, Jan 28

Ira writes: For two years, I've been working with Mike Birbiglia to turn the sleepwalking story...

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