Last year, Gay Talese told New York magazine that he had never visited the website of his former newspaper, The New York Times. “Never, and I never will.” This, despite the fact that he was working on a documentary with fellow Times veteran Arthur Gelb “about the paper’s struggles in the digital age,” according to New York. “I don’t deal with the technology,” Talese said, clearly with a whiff of disdain. “I don’t even know how to go into the Web. Maybe Gelb will do it. I insist on being with the people I’m writing about.”

Today, fresh off a Polk Award for lifetime achievement, Talese wrote a blog post for the Times website.