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Gay Talese and the Man Who Was Once Bartleby (But He Did It). - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

I have just finished reading the latest book by a man with gray hair, almost snow white, perhaps snow with slightly dirty car wheel tracks, with a prominent nose of undoubtedly Italian origin like his ancestry. He wears an impeccable charcoal gray suit cut to measure by the same man for decades, with a white shirt and a classic movie collar, and a yellow tie of the finest knit, which falls with the naturalness of an anchovy fillet on his chest, …