"Beautifully documented . . . no less than a landmark in the field of writing and journalism."-The Nation"Fascinating . . . Seldom has anyone been so successful in making a newspaper come alive as a human institution."-The New York...

"An Italian ROOTS." -The Washington Post Book WorldAt long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the...

The Voyeur's Motel was one of the most talked about books of 2016, published to major attention including positive reviews by Dwight Garner in the New York Times and Jane Smiley in the Washington Post. The Chicago Sun Times called it "An...

Gay Talese (born February 7, 1932) is an American author. He wrote for The New York Times in the early 1960s and helped to define literary journalism or 'new nonfiction reportage', also known as New Journalism. His most famous articles...

A selection of classic high points in the illustrious career of Gay Talese. "[High Notes] reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made Talese a paragon of the New Journalism." -New York Times...

A classic masterwork newly updatedThe electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime familyOn New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno...

Die amerikanische Mafia ist berühmt als gefährliche Geheimgesellschaft, kriminell, undurchschaubar, aber auch faszinierend. Sie war Stoff unzähliger Romane und Filme, von denen Der Pate der berühmteste ist. Es ist eine Welt, die von...