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Gay Talese is known for his dapper wardrobe and distinctive writing style. He became famous as a writer who helped to define the New Journalism in the 1960s. He wrote block buster best sellers like\\xa0Honor Thy Father\\xa0about the Bonanno crime family.\\xa0The Voyeur\\u2019s Motel\\xa0focuses on a motel owner who spied on his guests. Talese also calls himself a voyeur. He spent 8 years researching\\xa0Thy Neighbor\\u2019s Wife, his book about sex in America. That research included managing a massage parlor and living in a nudist colony.\\xa0Now, 91-year old Gay Talese has written a new book called\\xa0Bartleby and Me. \\xa0Sitting on his elegant leather sofa in his Manhattan townhouse, I asked Gay Talese to tell me about all the outrageous things he\\u2019s done in his life. \\u201cNow What?\\u201d is produced with the help of Steve Zimmer, Lucy Little and Patrick McAndrew. Audio production is by Nick Ciavatta.