I'm reading Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese. It's a study of sex in the US, but it's also the history of censorship in America. In The New New Journalism, Talese states: "I just want to write about people in a way that is a short story with real names." He continues: "I don't know who the characters are at the beginning. I don't know the story, but I do know the stage of the theater. I find the characters by simply showing up at the 'theater.' As I spend more time in there, they emerge. It's almost as if I imagine them, and then, they mysteriously appear."
