What Keeps Gay Talese Up at Night? - Big Think

Skip to content

Who's in the Video

Gay Talese is an American journalist and a nonfiction writer. He wrote for The New York Times in the 1960s after working for its copy and obituary sections. In the[…]

What Keeps Gay Talese Up at Night?

▸

with

The esteemed writer only loses sleep when the Yankees play on the west coast.

Question: Are there any issues today that keep you up at night?

Gay Talese: No. What keeps me up late at night are watching a baseball game when the Yankees are on the west coast; that’s about it

Recorded on September 22, 2009

Up Next

The Struggles of a Female Philosopher

▸

3 min

—

with

Related

a computer generated image of a human brain.

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

▸

7 min

—

with

jwst Abell 2744 450 million

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.