In his autobiography, this author recounted working for months on a piece about John and Lorena Bobbitt, only to have it be cruelly rejected by The New Yorker.
An essay by this author describes a party where a girl accidentally shatters one of a pair of alabaster birds, to which the host responds by breaking the other bird. In his autobiography, this author recounted working for months on a piece about John and Lorena Bobbitt, only to have it be cruelly rejected by The New Yorker. Harlan Ellison is pressured to leave a private club in Beverly Hills for wearing insufficiently formal boots in an article by this writer that interpolates (*) lyrics such as "Life is a beautiful thing / I've got the world on a string."  In 2016, this author wrote about how Gerald Foos modified the attic of his hotel so he could document his guests having sex in his article "The Voyeur Motel." He published an Esquire profile describing how a prying CBS documentary upset a nearly-fifty year old singer who was feeling under the weather. For 10 points, name this New Journalist author of "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold."
An essay by this author describes a party where a girl accidentally shatters one of a pair of alabaster birds, to which the host responds by breaking the other bird.
Gay Talese