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The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - Gay TaleseFebruary 3, 1999 |
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GAY TALESE is one of the most emiment and successful of living American
writers. Talese is the author of many books in a category of nonfiction
writing that has sometimes been called "the literature of reality,"
sometimes "the New Journalism," sometimes "fact fiction." Among these
works are Thy Neighbor's Wife (1980), Unto the Sons (1992),
The Kingdom and the Power (1969), Honor Thy Father (1971),
and The Overreachers (1965). The following articles about Talese
and the "new journalism" are available in the Writers House living room
for you to take a look at: David Eason, "The New Journalism and the
Image-World," in Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century
(Oxford, 1990); Ronald Weber, "Subjective Reality and Saturation
Reporting," in The Literature of Fact: Literary Nonfiction in American
Writing (1980). These and other articles and essays about Talese are
available for reading at the Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk. For
the Spring 1999 semester, Gay Talese will be the first Kelly Writers House
Fellow, a project made possible by a generous grant from Paul Kelly. PERTINENT MATERIALS & LINKS
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"An Italian Roots."--The Washington Post
Book World. At 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 years
preceding World War II. Ultimately it is the story of all immigrant
families and the hope and sacrifice that took them from the familiarity of
the old world into the mysteries and challenges of the new. A brief
synopsis:
The acclaimed author of such modern classics as Honor
Thy Father and The Kingdom and the Power
salutes the American dream. In the years preceding
World War II, the Talese family emigrated from Italy to America--a
place that tested their loyalties, love, and links
with the past.