Gay Talese Reads a Ton of Newspapers

The Atlantic Wire has a new Media Diet today, featuring Gay Talese. He says that the first paper he reads is (of course) The New York Times, and that he reads it cover to cover. But that’s not all. Throughout the course of his day, Talese reads The Daily News, The New York Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Observer. The one paper he doesn’t read? The Washington Post.

Talese also uses a computer to write on that is “about 20 years old,” but fear not, he still loves typewriters:

But I do have typewriters, I still have them, I still use them.

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