Gay Talese
by Adam | Friday 24 June 2011
Gay Talese wrote this very hypnotic piece about his media diet for the Atlantic. If you don't read the Media Diet series, you're missing out on a lot of really interesting (and oddly repetitive) guides for how and what writers read.
Gay Talese, being Gay Talese:
As I said the dogs make it tough to read the paper. Between Bach being on WQXR and the news interrupting you have this noise. So what I usually do is, when the housekeeper arrives at 9:30, I'm out of there. I go upstairs and I take maybe the Sports section with me and I dress for the day. I then go down to where I work, which is a basement, what I call a bunker, under the house. I take a of thermos filled with the coffee that I've made upstairs downstairs to my little office beneath the house. I have a kitchenette where I can make eggs.
For further reading, check out his landmark profile, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold."