Wolfe wrote that his first acquaintance with a new style of reporting came in a 1962 "Esquire" article about Joe Louis by Gay Talese. "'Joe Louis at Fifty' wasn't like a magazine article at all. It was like a short story. It began with a scene, an intimate confrontation between Louis and his third wife..." Wolfe said Talese was the first to apply fiction techniques to reporting. "Esquire" claimed credit as the seedbed for these new techniques. "Esquire" editor Harold Hayes later wrote that "in the Sixties, events seemed to move too swiftly to allow the osmotic process of art to keep abreast, and when we found a good novelist we immediately sought to seduce him with the sweet mysteries of current events." Soon others, notably "New York", followed "Esquire"s lead, and the style eventually infected other magazines and then books.