What profession did Gay Talese and Roberto Bolaño share?
Gay Talese Gay Talese ( ; born February 7, 1932) is an American writer. As a journalist for "The New York Times" and "Esquire" magazine during the 1960s, Talese helped to define literary journalism. Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
Roberto Calasso Roberto Calasso (born 30 May 1941 in Florence) is an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Italian, Calasso is fluent in French, English, Spanish, German. Latin and Greek. He has also studied Sanskrit. He has been called 'a literary institution of one'. The fundamental thematic concept of his oeuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.