In 2013, having sold his motel (and another he used for the same purpose), he finally decided to let Talese publish, giving him access to decades of his diaries, which Talese relies on in the book. The titular voyeur, one Gerald Foos, bought a motel on the outskirts of Denver, Colo. in the 1960s so he could spy on people having sex. “I’m not exactly an altar boy,” says the 84-year-old writer, on the phone from New York, where he lives with his wife, literary agent Nan Talese. “I’m on the wrong side with this book.” He visited Foos’s motel once and, together, they spied on a couple having oral sex. Gay Talese’s reputation as a literary journalist is immense — his 1966 article “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” has long been held up as a shining example of the form.

Source: thestar July 10, 2016 03:56 UTC