The Voyeur‘s Motel

The Voyeur‘s Motel was one of the most talked about books of 2016, published to major attention including positive reviews by Dwight Garner in the New York Times and Jane Smiley in the Washington Post. The Chicago Sun Times called it "An incredible story" and the Los Angeles Times, "A peculiar tale too good not to tell." Talese appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers and NPR‘s "Weekend Edition," among other outlets. The New Yorker article based on the book became one of the "Sixteen Most-Read New Yorker Magazine Stories of 2016" A feature-length documentary on Talese and The Voyeur‘s Motel has been filmed and will premiere in 2017 at a festival to be determined. Gay Talese is a legendary American journalist who has inspired countless authors, including Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. In 1962, Wolfe credited Talese with the creation of "The New Journalism." Talese‘s groundbreaking profile, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," is "perhaps the most famous magazine story in American journalism" (Telegraph). Bloomsbury published High Notes, a new collection of Talese‘s journalism, in January 2017. The book is receiving tremendous media attention and has received favorable reviews from the New York Times Book Review, among others.