ANALYSIS: TRUE. Gay Talese has nothing to apologize for:

So Gay Talese wasn’t inspired by any women writers. So what?

Feminists organized a mass online fainting session when Talese, one of the most admired magazine writers of his generation and the author of such best-selling books as “Thy Neighbor’s Wife,” recently answered “None” when asked which female journalists inspired him as a young man.

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