Am I cold?

It was the year 1966, and the magazine Esquire had asked to write a profile about Frank Sinatra, one of the most important artists of that times. It was a huge challenge, because he had already rejected thousands of interviews. But, after months of arduous investigations, many interviews and conversations with friends, family, and people that worked with him, the best profile of the complicated singer. It’s not only considered one of the best profiles of journalism, but also one of the first articles of the New Journalism. Frank Sinatra has a cold.

Gay Talese was born on February 7 of 1932, in Ocean City, United States. It’s son of two Italian immigrants, a tailor and a dressmaker, reason why he has never felt completely American. His family was poor, so he went through many difficulties as a child. And the profession of his parents explains his neat and elegant way of dress up.

When he had 15 years old, his football couch asks him if he wanted to write about his teammates. And since that day, he never stops writing about people, he even confess in one interview that, in fact, he always write about them.

For some people, he is considerate as the father of the New Journalism, with Tom Wolfe, but the beginning of this literary stile, has always been diffuse.

He was tired of the unexpressive way of the informative journalism, with so many and boring rules, that he quite to The New York Times and decided to work in a magazine, to have more freedom at the time of writing. And Esquire hired him, and asked a Frank Sinatra profile…And now you know the rest.

For me, and almost everyone, he is one of the best journalists of this style. He is so committed with his articles and investigations, that he, literally, LIVES every story.

So I invited you to read some article or book of this wonderful journalist, that introduced him salve in the gangster’s territory (so much that he even became a friend of many gangsters), and published one of his famous books: “Honor thy Father”. That inspire the series The sopranos.