December 2010
2 posts
“FRANK SINATRA, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the...”
– So begins a profile of one of Hollywood’s best known drinkers by one of America’s best known profile writers, Gay Talese. When it ran in Esquire magazine in 1966, it helped launch a new form of nonfiction writing that did to plain old journalism what fermentation did to plain old barley.
Sinatra...