A Writer's Life 在线电子书 图书标签: 文学 作家 传记
发表于2024-11-24
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文字可以打磨,风格可以摸索,但发掘故事的嗅觉和探入故事的视角很难学习或模仿。最后女足姑娘的故事真好:即便不是最初预想的逆袭剧本,但记录的也是一段典型历史背景下的独特讲述。“我希望飞机就这样一直飞下去,不要降落。”
评分文字可以打磨,风格可以摸索,但发掘故事的嗅觉和探入故事的视角很难学习或模仿。最后女足姑娘的故事真好:即便不是最初预想的逆袭剧本,但记录的也是一段典型历史背景下的独特讲述。“我希望飞机就这样一直飞下去,不要降落。”
评分就像坐在80多岁的T面前听故事一样读他回忆过往的辉煌,有亮点,也有不知所云。到了这把年纪,真没必要出一部四百多页重复自己的书。
评分文字可以打磨,风格可以摸索,但发掘故事的嗅觉和探入故事的视角很难学习或模仿。最后女足姑娘的故事真好:即便不是最初预想的逆袭剧本,但记录的也是一段典型历史背景下的独特讲述。“我希望飞机就这样一直飞下去,不要降落。”
评分就像坐在80多岁的T面前听故事一样读他回忆过往的辉煌,有亮点,也有不知所云。到了这把年纪,真没必要出一部四百多页重复自己的书。
The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books about The New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power), the Mafia (Honor Thy Father), the sex industry (Thy Neighbor’s Wife), and, focusing on his own family, the American immigrant experience (Unto the Sons).
How has Talese found his subjects? What has stimulated, blocked, or inspired his writing? Here are his amateur beginnings on his college newspaper; his professional climb at The New York Times; his desire to write on a larger canvas, which led him to magazine writing at Esquire and then to books. We see his involvement with issues of race from his student days in the Deep South to a recent interracial wedding in Selma, Alabama, where he once covered the fierce struggle for civil rights. Here are his reflections on the changing American sexual mores he has written about over the last fifty years, and a striking look at the lives—and their meaning—of Lorena and John Bobbitt. He takes us behind the scenes of his legendary profile of Frank Sinatra, his writings about Joe DiMaggio and heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, and his interview with the head of a Mafia family.
But he is at his most poignant in talking about the ordinary men and women whose stories led to his most memorable work. In remarkable fashion, he traces the history of a single restaurant location in New York, creating an ethnic mosaic of one restaurateur after the other whose dreams were dashed while a successor’s were born. And as he delves into the life of a young female Chinese soccer player, we see his consuming interest in the world in its latest manifestation.
In these and other recollections and stories, Talese gives us a fascinating picture of both the serendipity and meticulousness involved in getting a story. He makes clear that every one of us represents a good one, if a writer has the curiosity to know it, the diligence to pursue it, and the desire to get it right.
Candid, humorous, deeply impassioned—a dazzling book about the nature of writing in one man’s life, and of writing itself.
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