2/4/2024 0 Comments Jbunny voyeur boys gay xxx![]() Talese - whose use of the tools of fiction to propel factual accounts helped found New Journalism in the 1960s - drops the self-impeaching evidence casually. The average reader will greet more with anger than sadness Gay Talese’s disclosure - almost halfway through his book The Voyeur’s Motel - that the detailed sex journal underpinning this zany work of nonfiction can’t be trusted. Jack Shafer has read the book so we don’t have to, reviewing it for the New York Times. His opening: It’s odd the piece ended up in the New Yorker, which under David Remnick has largely been an impenetrable fortress against such slipshod narratives. Excuses have been made, but the work is stained by the worst excesses of New Journalism, which opened the craft to a wider style, sure, but also made reporting prone to dubious veracity and methods. Absent journalistic and personal ethics, the story has been further muddied by revelations of fabrications that basic reportage would have uncovered. ![]() The excerpt from Gay Talese’s The Voyeur’s Motel that unfortunately ran recently in the New Yorker was more than enough for me– way more than enough–and I won’t be investing the time to read the dodgy book.
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