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Category Archives: Tom Wolfe
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
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
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
Tom Wolfe – Stalking The Billion-Footed Beast
00:00 What do novels do better than movies/TV? 02:00 Why Authors Are Important: Tom Wolfe On His Favorite Books, Writing, Art, Style (1996), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IVA_iVofo 05:00 Tom Wolfe on realist fiction, https://harpers.org/archive/1989/11/stalking-the-billion-footed-beast/ 27:00 From 2006: Writer Tom Wolfe on journalism and … Continue reading
Tom Wolfe’s Race Realism
Ben Yagoda writes in the WSJ: “While “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (1987) was a tour de force—not coincidentally set in New York, his adoptive home town, whose streets he had pounded for so many years—I wasn’t able to get … Continue reading
Tom Wolfe On Firing Line Regarding His First Novel ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’
Comments at Steve Sailer: * And many other of Wolfe’s appearances can be seen on the official youtube page. Slightly related is the appearance talking about Radical Chic: What is peculiar here is the ethnic subtext between Wolfe, Southerner, and … Continue reading
Tom Wolfe On Freud
Stuart Schneiderman writes: In a 2006 lecture he delivered at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Tom Wolfe offered some remarks about Freud. I report them without commentary. First: In medical terms, Freud is now considered a quack. But his … Continue reading
Does Jonathan Franzen Belong On The Alt-Right?
Comments at the Chateau: * Houellebecq, along with Tom Wolfe, are the greatest novelists of our age and, not coincidentally, they are also alt-right, neodark, reactoshivvian crimethinkers and sexual market surveyors of unparalleled keen perception. The Left’s causes are exhausted, … Continue reading
Michael Lewis Profiles Tom Wolfe For Vanity Fair
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Wolfe will remain a despised and mocked (poorly reviewed) figure by our elites for having the temerity to a) notice what was really going on during the catastrophic 60s and 70s , and b) portraying … Continue reading
Tom Wolfe’s Female Characters
Steve Sailer writes: In the 1960s Wolfe wrote with great zest and insight about New York and London young women trying to break into or not fall out of cafe society in a manner that marked him out as worthy … Continue reading