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Category Archives: Tom Wolfe
NYRB: ‘The Illusion of the First Person’
In Merve Emre’s essay in the Nov. 3, 2022 edition of the New York Review of Books, she claims that the individual is a fiction. Now, obviously, the individual is never only an individual. They have other identities. But Emre’s … Continue reading
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Tom Wolfe and the Rise of Donald Trump: A Review of Wolfe’s Writings
Wight Martindale Jr. writes in 2018: * I believe that intellectually and, in some personal habits as well, Wolfe and Trump are similar. But they lived in separate worlds. Perhaps someday a doctoral student will show us that all along … Continue reading
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The Origins Of Tom Wolfe’s Journalistic Voice
Matthew Ricketson writes: What characterizes Wolfe’s journalistic voice, then, are: exaggeration, energy, inventiveness, playfulness, a keen sense of performance, and a wickedly satiric eye. His voice has won glowing praise and sharp detractors. William McKeen, author of the one of … Continue reading
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Appreciating Tom Wolfe (1930-2018)
Carol Iannone writes: Tom Wolfe the novelist arrived as modern fiction was going bankrupt. Modernism, the revolution in the arts that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century, had delivered all it had to deliver, and was … Continue reading
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Tom Wolfe’s Status Update
Michael Lewis writes: Eighteen months! That’s what it took for Wolfe, once he’d found his voice, to go from worrying about whether or not to go on the dole to a cult figure. By early 1965, literary agents are writing … Continue reading
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