Category Archives: Tom Wolfe

The Origins Of Tom Wolfe’s Journalistic Voice

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Luke Ford

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)

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Luke Ford

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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Tom Wolfe – Stalking The Billion-Footed Beast

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Luke Ford

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 →

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Tom Wolfe’s Race Realism

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Luke Ford

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 →

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