Wednesday, May 16, 2018

The last American prophet: Tom Wolfe, the father of New Bonfires and Journalism, dies aged 88


A cult is a religion with no political power.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.


Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
― Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test


“None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. If saying bullshit is somebody's thing, then he says bullshit. If somebody is an ass-kicker, then that's what he's going to do on this trip, kick asses. He's going to do it right out front and nobody is going to have anything to get pissed off about. He can just say, 'I'm sorry I kicked you in the ass, but I'm not sorry I'm an ass-kicker. That's what I do, I kick people in the ass.' Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about. What we are, we're going to wail with on this whole trip.”
― Tom WolfeThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ”
― Tom Wolfe


Like All Media Dragons, Tom Wolfe Made Everyone Talk About Him






The last American prophet


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Tom Wolfe and family photographed by Jill Krementz in his backyard on August 27, 1983. At the end of the audiobook version of Tom Wolfe's 'I Am Charlotte Simmons,' the author talks of enjoying audiobooks with his family on drives out to the Hamptons.
Tom Wolfe and family photographed by Jill Krementz in his backyard on August 27, 1983. At the end of the audiobook version of Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons,’ the author talks of enjoying audiobooks with his family on drives out to the Hamptons.

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One of the greatest journalists and writers of the last century, Tom Wolfe, who died Monday at age 88, had a deep, longstanding connection with Rolling Stone. He and founder and editor in chief Jann S. Wenner met in the late Sixties, and the timing ...


Tom Wolfe, journalist and author of Bonfire of the Vanities, dies aged 88






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Tom Wolfe, chronicler of our era


Tom Wolfe died Monday, having written thousands of pages of crackling literary commentary on this strange, infuriating, enthralling place we call modern America. We're New Yorkers, and we're members of the press, so we include here a brief excerpt from ...

Highly Cited


Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan's moneyed status-seekers in works like “The Kandy-Kolored ...

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Washington Examiner - ‎8 hours ago‎
Tom Wolfe wasn't wearing his trademark white suit when he took me to lunch at the Southampton Bathing Corporation. This would have been a disappointment if it were not that his chosen attire for a run to the beach was just as flamboyant. If I were half ...

Renowned journalist, essayist, and novelist Tom Wolfe passed away on Monday at the age of 88, his agent Lynn Nesbit has confirmed to the Associated Press. He had recently been hospitalized with an infection. Wolfe was known for the colorful prose and ...