The author of “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” stopped by the Nieman Foundation last month to talk with Esquire's Chris Jones about how he does what he does. "I’m on the road a lot," he says. "I believe you have to be there. I don’t use the technology now any more than I did when I was a young reporter." He recalls a New York Times veteran warning him about technology in the early 1950s: "Stay away from these telephones."
