10 years ago... Jesus, suck it up once in a while! You know something, all of us in this room at one time or another did something we're ashamed of. The Dalai Lama has done something he's ashamed of. The Dalai Lama should confess... put that in your magazine!" CNN reported the "backlash on social media was almost immediate." Jenavieve Hatch of the Huffington Post called the remarks "disrespectful to survivors of sexual trauma." The Daily Beasts Tom Sykes wrote "chastising an alleged child sexual harassment victim is a terrible look." The Washington Post called his statements a "bizarre, rabid defense of the actor." Personal life In 1959, Talese married writer Nan Talese (née Ahearn), a New York editor who manages the Nan A. Talese/Doubleday imprint. Their marriage is being documented in a non-fiction book he has been working on since 2007. They have two daughters, Pamela Talese, a painter, and Catherine Talese, a photographer and photo editor. In popular culture Talese appeared as a character in several strips of the comic Doonesbury, giving an interview to radio host Mark Slackmeyer to promote his book Thy Neighbor's Wife. Partial bibliography Books''' New York: A Serendipiter's Journey (1961) The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (1964) The Overreachers (1965; compilation of past reportage) The Kingdom and the Power (1969) Fame and Obscurity (1970; compilation of past reportage) Honor Thy Father (1971) Thy Neighbor's Wife (1981) Unto the Sons (1992; memoir) Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality (1995) (textbook; with Barbara Lounsberry) The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters (2003; contains material from New York: A Serendipiter's Journey, The Overreachers and Fame and Obscurity) A Writer's Life (2006; memoir) The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese (2010; compilation of past reportage) The Voyeur's Motel (2016) References External links "Gay Talese", Big Think "Gay Talese Reads from Thy Neighbor's Wife", Vanity Fair'', April 14, 2009 "Gay Talese: 'Sinatra Has a Cold'", NPR, September 9, 2003 1932 births 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American memoirists 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American male writers American essayists American male non-fiction writers American writers of Italian descent Living people Organized crime memoirists People from Ocean City, New Jersey People of Calabrian descent The New York Times writers University of Alabama alumni Writers from Manhattan