Gay Talese Still Not Sure Sinatra Read That Esquire Piece
They don't make magazine assignments like this anymore
For maximum enjoyment, plan on clicking through to Gay Talese’s celebrated April 1966 Esquire cover story “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” a little later. After you have cued up your favorite Frank LP and poured a shot of your preferred quarter-to-three morning spirit.
In the meantime, enjoy Talese’s memories of the assignment, shared today with the Wall Street Journal’s Marc Myers. It was a typical struggle for Talese to try and get Sinatra to participate. And only years later did Talese receive the kind of feedback all feature writers hope for:
I never met Sinatra, but six months after he died in 1998, I was at Hofstra University in New York for a Sinatra conference and met his daughter, Tina.
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