At the Library Lions Gala at the New York Public Library on Monday, veteran journalist Gay Talese—who helped shape the magazine profile as we know it today—spoke with Vanity Fair about which subject he’d most want to profile at this moment in time. His answer was Kevin Spacey and his reasoning was surprisingly…

Weeks after denouncing and refusing to promote his book The Voyeur’s Motel, literary journalist Gay Talese appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote that same book.

In April 2016, the New Yorker published an extraordinary tale of male entitlement. Literary journalist Gay Talese told the story of how self-proclaimed amateur sex researcher and professional peeping tom Gerald Foos had purchased the Manor House motel in Aurora, Colorado and jerry-rigged a viewing deck in order to spy…

In an extraordinary article entitled “The Voyeur’s Motel,” published in the April 11, 2016 issue of The New Yorker, Gay Talese told the story of how he became involved with a serial voyeur named Gerald Foos. Foos, in the late 1960s, had purchased the 21-room Manor House Motel in Aurora, Colorado with the express…

Last Saturday, Gay Talese was speaking at a conference at Boston University. When the octogenarian nonfiction legend was asked about women writers who had inspired him, he replied, “I didn’t know any women writers that I loved.”

At an April 2 conference held at Boston University, literary journalist Gay Talese remarked to his audience that he could not name a single woman writer who inspired him. Wow guy!