Some may argue with you on this one. Here are comments by Gay Talese during the Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 1, 2001.
"About twenty-some years later, when I left The New York Times in 1965, the first thing I did was go back to the paper and write about some of those wonderful people, those characters who were in the city room and who were not news. The first person I wrote about was an obituary writer. He would wander about the city room with a little green cap, smoking a pipe in the days when you could smoke pipes. He would be thinking about death. He would be thinking about people who were about to die because he would interview them and tell them that he was going to updated the files on these people, a sort of advance obituary. He made his living in this very distinguished way. The first thing I did when I went to Esquire from the Times was to write about Mr. Bad News, I called him. What was it like to be a man who interviewed people whose time on earth was worthy of space in the New York Times when they died?"
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Some may argue with you on this one. Here are comments by Gay Talese during the Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 1, 2001.
"About twenty-some years later, when I left The New York Times in 1965, the first thing I did was go back to the paper and write about some of those wonderful people, those characters who were in the city room and who were not news. The first person I wrote about was an obituary writer. He would wander about the city room with a little green cap, smoking a pipe in the days when you could smoke pipes. He would be thinking about death. He would be thinking about people who were about to die because he would interview them and tell them that he was going to updated the files on these people, a sort of advance obituary. He made his living in this very distinguished way. The first thing I did when I went to Esquire from the Times was to write about Mr. Bad News, I called him. What was it like to be a man who interviewed people whose time on earth was worthy of space in the New York Times when they died?"
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