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Men: What They Do, What They Think, and Why...
A career-spanning anthology from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Lifeboat No. 8 .
Robert De Niro. Kobe Bryant. Sylvester Stallone. Ted Kennedy. Mike Tyson. Anthony Hopkins. Over the past quarter century, no woman has profiled a wider variety of contemporary male celebrities than Elizabeth Kaye, one of the foremost non-fiction writers of our time.
Packed with more than twenty classic profiles, What They Do, What They Think, and Why… reveals Kaye’s remarkable ability to establish rapport with her subjects, to enter their hearts and minds, and to write about them with a vividness, lyricism and economy second to none.
This career retrospective also contains riveting commentary and insights from the author that take you behind the scenes, exposing the intense yet delicate reporting process and the way many of her famous (and infamous) subjects reacted to her work.
PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH KAYE
“What makes her special is that, as a reporter, she is at once sympathetic and tough-minded. She works tirelessly to bring to light the humanity of whomever she writes about. Elizabeth Kaye is fair. Sentence by sentence she forms a portrait that rises well above the fleeting impressions we get from other celebrity watchers these days.”
—Lee Eisenberg, formerly Editor-in-Chief of Esquire
“Elizabeth Kaye is a wonderful writer—as a reporter she’s like a bulldog—she grabs onto you and doesn’t let go until she figures out everything about you.”
—Sylvester Stallone
“Preternatually gifted…Kaye’s Didionesque prose has such shine and inventiveness, her observations are so wry and witty and poignant…”
—Joanne Kaufman, reviewing Kaye’s memoir Notes from the Halfway Mark
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For fifteen years, Elizabeth Kaye was a Contributing Editor to Esquire . Her work has appeared in countless publications ranging from Playboy to Vogue and the New York Times . She is the author of five books, including the Byliner e-books Sleeping with Famous Men and Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic , the latter of which reached #1 on Amazon Singles and the New York Times e-book bestseller list.
Kaye is also a ballet historian who has written extensively about the art, and lectured frequently at The Metropolitan Opera House, The Music Center in Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center, and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
Robert De Niro. Kobe Bryant. Sylvester Stallone. Ted Kennedy. Mike Tyson. Anthony Hopkins. Over the past quarter century, no woman has profiled a wider variety of contemporary male celebrities than Elizabeth Kaye, one of the foremost non-fiction writers of our time.
Packed with more than twenty classic profiles, What They Do, What They Think, and Why… reveals Kaye’s remarkable ability to establish rapport with her subjects, to enter their hearts and minds, and to write about them with a vividness, lyricism and economy second to none.
This career retrospective also contains riveting commentary and insights from the author that take you behind the scenes, exposing the intense yet delicate reporting process and the way many of her famous (and infamous) subjects reacted to her work.
PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH KAYE
“What makes her special is that, as a reporter, she is at once sympathetic and tough-minded. She works tirelessly to bring to light the humanity of whomever she writes about. Elizabeth Kaye is fair. Sentence by sentence she forms a portrait that rises well above the fleeting impressions we get from other celebrity watchers these days.”
—Lee Eisenberg, formerly Editor-in-Chief of Esquire
“Elizabeth Kaye is a wonderful writer—as a reporter she’s like a bulldog—she grabs onto you and doesn’t let go until she figures out everything about you.”
—Sylvester Stallone
“Preternatually gifted…Kaye’s Didionesque prose has such shine and inventiveness, her observations are so wry and witty and poignant…”
—Joanne Kaufman, reviewing Kaye’s memoir Notes from the Halfway Mark
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For fifteen years, Elizabeth Kaye was a Contributing Editor to Esquire . Her work has appeared in countless publications ranging from Playboy to Vogue and the New York Times . She is the author of five books, including the Byliner e-books Sleeping with Famous Men and Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic , the latter of which reached #1 on Amazon Singles and the New York Times e-book bestseller list.
Kaye is also a ballet historian who has written extensively about the art, and lectured frequently at The Metropolitan Opera House, The Music Center in Los Angeles, The Kennedy Center, and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
432 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 21, 2015
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