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Contents:

• WEEKEND READG: GAY TALE’S BT, LEAST-KNOWN STORY; LIFE AS A DRONE OPERATOR
• NOT OM UNRGROUND: GAY TALE’S OFFICE
• GAY TALE: A MAN OF RERD
• ‘VOYR’ REVIEW: NETFLIX’S DEVIANT GAY TALE DOC CAN’T DECI WHAT WANTS TO LOOK AT
• GAY TALE
• OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE
• GAY TALE: WRER, SCRAPBOOKER
• GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM
• GAY TALE
• GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL
• GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD

WEEKEND READG: GAY TALE’S BT, LEAST-KNOWN STORY; LIFE AS A DRONE OPERATOR

Gay Tale remembers his longtime iend and fellow New Journalism legend, who died May 14 at age 88. “You n’t make this stuff up, ” Gay Tale says the begng of Voyr, the new documentary chroniclg the velopment of his book The Voyr’s Motel, which was excerpted as a ntroversial New Yorker article, and, as of Friday, is available on Netflix.

In hdsight, some errors are glargly obv: There are some obv and damng genr dynamics at work here, between Gay and Nan and between Foos and his wife, Ana, but Kane and Koury do ltle to lve to the sexual polics that make Foos’s motel an enavor of masculy, and an credibly vlatg and disturbg one at that. The level of meta-storytellg they attempt to tell lv to all the most superficial rners, like watchg Tale’s dghter, an artist, pat Foos’s motel for her father’s book; Tale and Foos, when they first meet 2013, stay at a motel, se you didn’t know what they’re gettg at faiar wh Gay Tale’s brand of lerary journalism, which has bee a fg style, is likely faiar wh another pneer, Ja Mallm, who said this of her chosen genre, bgraphy: “The voyrism and bybodyism that impel wrers and rears of bgraphy alike are obscured by an apparat of scholarship signed to give the enterprise an appearance of bank-like blandns and solidy.

“One of the bt piec I ever wrote my life, which no one ever heard of, ” as Gay Tale put on his recent Longform podst, has been republished on “Mr.

NOT OM UNRGROUND: GAY TALE’S OFFICE

Unr the townhoe where the legendary wrer Gay Tale and his wife, Nan, have lived for over half a century is what Tale lls his “subterranean thk tank. Author and journalist Gay Tale (right) and Gerald Foos, the Colorado motel owner who for years spied on his guts, are the foc of the Netflix documentary Voyr. There's a fascatg moment the new Netflix documentary Voyr when the filmmakers ask the protagonist, Gerald Foos — who allegedly spied on guts om the attic of the now-funct Manor Hoe Motel Aurora that he owned — whether he regretted tellg his story to renowned journalist Gay Tale, who published a New Yorker article, then book, about Foos 2016.

That’s why I didn’t tell Gay [Tale] about , " Foos said. I'm a practner of puttg up a very fe Italians, well I'm Italian, they ll la bella figura, the good name is Gay Tale. Gay Tale was perhaps the most notable of the group.

Gay Tale is a journalist and ternatnal bt-sellg thor whose works clu The Bridge (Walker & Company 2003), The Kgdom and the Power, Honor Thy Father, Thy Neighbors Wife, and Unto the Sons.

GAY TALE: A MAN OF RERD

Gay Tale is a btsellg thor who has wrten fourteen books. Gay Tale was born Ocean Cy, New Jersey, and currently liv New York Cy. Gay Tale and Tom Wolfe, June 5, 2017 ©Natan Dvir.

‘VOYR’ REVIEW: NETFLIX’S DEVIANT GAY TALE DOC CAN’T DECI WHAT WANTS TO LOOK AT

Gay Tale, January 2017, ©Robyn Twomey/The Village Voice. Gay Tale near the Edmund Pett Bridge Selma, Ala., Febary 2015, © Josh Haner/The New York Tim.

Gay Tale wh Tony Danza at the New York Athletic Club for Table 4 Wrers Foundatn, March 7, 2013, by Mike Coppola/Getty Imag. Gay Tale wh Joe Girardi © New York Yanke, October 2012. 'High Not' ntas all the reasons I've been teachg Gay Tale's work to my stunts at Yale for a , and all the reasons they love .

GAY TALE

Other books by Gay Tale.

The Gay Tale Rear (2003). A documentary featurg Gay Tale's reportg (entled Voyr).

Gay Tale is progrsg wh a new book for Knopf, "A Non-Fictn Marriage, ".

OTHER BOOKS BY GAY TALE

Click here for prt qualy imag of Gay Tale. Gay and Nan Tale New York, 2009. Gore Vidal, Gay Tale, San Sontag and Norman Mailer read Gee Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan Hell" a one-night performance benefg the Actor's Stud at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recal Hall, Febary 15, 1993.

GAY TALE: WRER, SCRAPBOOKER

Gay Tale is a legendary wrer who works a sgular way. Gay Tale’s Other Problem. Gay Tale.

Gay Tale probably wish he’d had a ld. Gay Tale had somethg to show me. In full view of a New York magaze wrer who’d been sent to profile Tale, a massse “took hold of Gay’s penis as lmly as if had been a pool cue” and playfully threatened to pate .

On the send floor of the 21 Club, behd the phalanx of pated lawn jockey statu that le the balny of the rtrant, a speakeasy s youth, the wrer Gay Tale stood biddg his dner guts good night. “But Nan and Gay would have the parti...

GAY TALE’S OTHER PROBLEM

The publisher Nan Tale, Gay’s wife of 56 years, was there. By the time the hour had grown late and the room thned to jt the Wolf and the Tal and the Taschen crowd, word had spread: Gay Tale had a ld. And not that Gay Tale wh a ld sounds the kd of alarm that did for Frank Satra Los Angel half a century ago, about to tape a natnal special:Satra wh a ld is Pisso whout pat, Ferrari whout fuel—only worse.

For the mon ld robs Satra of that unsurable jewel, his voice, cuttg to the re of his nfince, and affects not only his own psyche but also seems to e a kd of psychosomatic nasal drip wh dozens of people who work for him, drk wh him, love him, pend on him for their own welfare and Tale tographs the signg pag for Frank Satra Has a Cold his "bunker, " New York Cy, 2015Gay Tale wh a ld—a flu on s way out, whatever—meant that he would ask around for a lozenge.

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Photo: © 2015 and urty of Gay Tale“Satra” was not the first piece of New Journalism that Tale wrote, nor is his favore.

” Gay Tale, down the road Ocean Cy, the immaculate attire beftg the son of a drs shop owner and the aforementned tailor: “Drsg well mattered to my fay. Photo: Courty of TaschenIf was not already evint that night that, ld or no ld, Gay Tale—a lerary celebry his own right, well documented, and self-aware—was the Frank Satra this scenar, was beg ever more so.

GAY TALE'S LEGACY WILL SURVIVE THE VOYR'S MOTEL SNDAL

Photo: © 2015 and urty of Gay TaleThree nights after the 21 Club dner: upstairs the Rare Book Room of the Strand bookstore among the French L Ameris by Robert Frank and the first edn Denis Johnsons.

Still everyone listened raptly, as Gay Tale livered more Tale lore.

GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD