Gay Talese Writes Signs For The Homeless

Yahoo Gay News / Gothamist  Feb 17 09

Famous writer Gay Talese has written a post for CityRoom (he was a former Times reporter, after all) about writing some more timely signs for homeless people . Truly: He replaced one homeless man's sign, which reader, "Homeless. Please help," with the words, " Please Support Pres. Obama’s Stimulus Plan, and begin right here … at the bottom … Thank you. " Later, when Talese went home, he ... Full story...

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