Gay Talese Keeps Notes, Especially on Everyone’s Clothes
“New York is a city of things unnoticed,” begins the essay that opens “A Town Without Time,” a new collection of Gay Talese’s New York writings. Talese then proceeds to list, with deceptive economy, the things he has noticed: chestnut vendors, pigeons, doormen, copy boys, ants. Over more than six decades, Talese has made it…