Evaluating Esquire

Writing that spurred a revolution.

Talese: "I'd always read short stories," he said, "and the short story writers?and the playwrights and the novelists?were just writing about people, about the interiors of people. And that's what I always found challenging about nonfiction. My favorite short story writers were John Cheever and Irwin Shaw, and I figured I could do what they were doing without changing the names."