2. So it looks like Gay Talese's new book The Voyeur's Motel has serious problems because his main source is very unreliable.
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3. Here's a Washington Post write-up of the problems with Talese's book, which he's now seemingly disavowing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/author-gay-talese-disavows-his-latest-book-amid-credibility-questions/2016/06/30/1fede2b8-3e22-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html …
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If you can, please include how in Honor Thy Father, Talese made THE MOB so boring and fussily detailed I quit reading it twice
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More pertinently, Honor Thy Father is based almost entirely on a gullible acceptance of mafiosi at their word
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I've liked some of his stuff, but it's crazy how boring the mafia book is.
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I'll have to reread that one. Full confession: I worked with Gay for several years, helping him here and there....
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what did you call me?!
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You say that like it's a rarity :)
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I don't think it's an accident that Mailer jumped on the New Journalism. I think Kerouac prefigured it.
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As for Ellison, it's impossible for even the most Jamesian black writer to avoid non-bourgy social reality.
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