Dark Idyll
All stories about the murderous cult leader are creepy, but Gay Talese’s portrait of an old blind rancher visited by the Manson gang out-creeps them all.
Gay Talese is the author of 11 bestsellers. He was a reporter for The New York Times from 1956 to 1965, and since then he has written for the Times, Esquire, the New Yorker, and Harper's magazine.
In the last great meltdown, there were soup lines. Now they’re lining up for premium denim. A New York Diary.