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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...together. But what happens is this, Gay Talese grew up in Ocean City, New Jersey. He is Catholic, and Ocean City, New Jersey is..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...together. But what happens is this, Gay Talese grew up in Ocean City, New Jersey. He is Catholic, and Ocean City, New Jersey is..."
Jiang sets up Talese's final solution by returning to Talese's own outsider status in Ocean City, New Jersey and by treating shame, immigrant insecurity, and fear of ridicule as the emotional problem the ending must solve.
"...together. But what happens is this, Gay Talese grew up in Ocean City, New Jersey. He is Catholic, and Ocean City, New Jersey is..."
"...Into the heart of human darkness, into sex, he returns to Ocean City, and by now he's in his mid -forties. And he decides..."
"...the declaration of their names was the lettering of the locale, Ocean City, New Jersey. And seated on the decks were people wearing Bermuda..."
"He was a child of Italian immigrants who grew up in Ocean City, New Jersey. And he started a lot of research. He started,..."
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
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