“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” from the April 1966 issue of Esquire, is one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published. It is a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism—a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction. In 2023, we sat down with the writer, Gay Talese, to hear the full story of his time reporting it in Los Angeles in 1965. “Watching Frank,” an Esquire documentary, is the resu
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“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” from the April 1966 issue of Esquire, is one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published. It is a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism—a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction. In 2023, we sat down with the writer, Gay Talese, to hear the full story of his time reporting it in Los Angeles in 1965. “Watching Frank,” an Esquire documentary, is the resu
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