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hamsterisch's review against another edition
5.0
- In reading through old periodicals … it seemed that most of the news printed on the front pages was historically and socially less revealing of the time than what was published in the classified and the display advertising spread through the middle and back pages. The advertising offered detailed sketches and photographs showing the then-current fashion in clothing, the body styles of cars, where rental apartments were obtainable and at what cost, what jobs were available to the white-collar and the laboring classes; while the front pages were largely concerned with the words and deeds of many seemingly important people who were no longer important.
- .. I was mesmerized by New York, and intensely curious about the things that relatively few people cared about (like the nocturnal dusting habits of the city’s skyscraper charwomen, and what the doormen in apartment houses knew about the tenants’ marital lives, and, of course, the dietary needs of freelance cats).
- .. I was mesmerized by New York, and intensely curious about the things that relatively few people cared about (like the nocturnal dusting habits of the city’s skyscraper charwomen, and what the doormen in apartment houses knew about the tenants’ marital lives, and, of course, the dietary needs of freelance cats).
lmwillingham95's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
thatbookstoreguy's review against another edition
5.0
I love writing. Fiction writing, mostly. The real has always been so elusive. So uninviting. The world inside my head is safe, unchallenging, where I can think of crazy plots and engage in battle with my inner demons on a stage built out of bubble wrap.
Gay Talese’s writing takes journalism where it should always reside - in the realm of the real, in the realm where fiction resides: the poetic, the emotional, the personal. He gets inside, he listens and then he tells. He gets us to live inside the skin of diplomats, sportsman, entertainers, writers, and finds within them the mottled, throttled grey and muck that makes the greats not so great, makes the losers not so lost, and makes them...us.
I want to be a journalist now.
Gay Talese’s writing takes journalism where it should always reside - in the realm of the real, in the realm where fiction resides: the poetic, the emotional, the personal. He gets inside, he listens and then he tells. He gets us to live inside the skin of diplomats, sportsman, entertainers, writers, and finds within them the mottled, throttled grey and muck that makes the greats not so great, makes the losers not so lost, and makes them...us.
I want to be a journalist now.
patrick_114's review against another edition
5.0
My first reading of Mr. Talese's work and it is wonderful. Clear, visual, kind and leaves me to do a good bit of thinking in my own.
I will read more.
I will read more.
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