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and that's just the way it is.

And all this stuff here...

I feel like destroying it right now.

This is pointing direct fingers

at the voyeur

as being nothing but a creep.

- Well? You are.

- Huh?

My God, Anita.

Well...

I guess I'll...

- What you doing back here, Anita?

- Nothin'.

- Gerald?

- What?

Isn't that nice?

You wanna blow?

Make a wish first.

Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Tonight, Kristen Wiig.

Keke Palmer.

Author, Gay Talese.

There he is.

Featuring the 8G Band

with Thomas Lang.

Welcome back.

Our next guest

is one of the most influential journalists

of the 20th century.

His latest book, The Voyeur's Motel,

is in stores now.

Please welcome the very talented,

the legend, Gay Talese.

I wanted to be a writer

maybe not of the right people,

but the wrong people, the wrong side.

In The Voyeur's Motel, you found someone

who is arguably on the wrong side.

This is a man who reached out to you,

said, "I think you might be interested

in writing about this."

- Oh, he got the right guy.

- Yeah.

Let me ask you about this.

The Washington Post

did an interview with you,

where they had found

some inconsistencies in his story

as far as the years he owned the hotel.

You even say in the book that you

can't vouch for everything he said.

Do you think it's fair

for the Washington Post

to call you out for getting facts wrong?

It might be self-serving the way I sound,

but I'm not trying to be self-serving.

The Washington Post was wrong.

The Washington Post said that

during a period he didn't own the motel.

And I didn't know that,

and I was very upset.

I said, "I can't go along

and support this book."

But the next day I called the guy

who bought the motel,

and he said, "No, he still had

access to it. He had the key."

If I had known that day I was told

what I know now,

I wouldn't have disavowed the book.

That was a mistake on my part.

I overreacted.

I was very angry, and embarrassed, too,

because I took pride in my life...

A reliable reporter, that's what I am.

If Gay was here,

I'd say, "Hey, Gay, I'm sorry."

And I know that some way and somehow,

we could have a meeting of the minds.

We always had extreme trust

for each other,

and I believe I let you down,

"because I did not tell you the truth

about Earl Ballard."

In the journals,

I talked about the voyeur.

And it's empty and lonely.

Because you have nobody

that you can talk to,

or tell 'em how you're feeling.

And somehow I feel that

when I talk to you guys,

it's like somebody opened a drain...

and I'm able to free myself

of those thoughts.

And I love you guys.

I don't know, I feel a feeling

of companionship with you guys

that I don't feel with very many people.

I'll tell you, I was very surprised...

that you got the cooperation you did.

I did not believe there was any way

we could get you down to film him.

When I got permission

for you to come down...

the first day you arrived,

he started talking freely.

I thought, "Does he know what he's doing?

Does he know what he's doing?"

He opened up his home to you,

his bedroom to you, his wife to you.

He liked the publicity of the camera.

The camera turned him on.

And there it was.

The reverse procedure.

He's now being watched.

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