Gay Talese on Resisting His Frank Sinatra Assignment, and What Really Matters in a Marriage

It’s comforting to meet another writer who is as frustrated as I am with living in the Digital Age where nothing works. I always thought printing up T-shirts that read, “Nothing Works,” would sell like hotcakes, until I realized that Millennials would have no idea what the T-shirts were referring to.

Thank God, Gay Talese, at 91 years old, perhaps the world’s oldest living bestselling author with 17 books to his credit, and a new one just out— Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener (Mariner Books)—knew exactly what I was talking about.

“I haven’t changed,” Talese told me over the phone before his publisher or publicists had time to return my emails; he just called my cell phone 10 minutes after I emailed my request for an interview with the distinguished author of all things non-fiction.

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