by Alfonso Guerriero Jr.

I met Gay Talese on a Friday afternoon in New York City, when the sun descends from its zenith and anxious pedestrians are walking briskly home to begin their weekend. He had agreed to meet and talk about his Italian American experience and his career as a journalist and a non-fiction novelist.

Gay Talese is to literary journalism, the way Puccini is to opera, Michelangelo is to art, or Armani is to men's fashion. He is, as his late friend and author David Halberstam once averred, "The most important nonfiction writer of his generation, the person whose work most influenced at least two generations of other reporters."

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano