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.
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Like All Media Dragons, Tom Wolfe Made Everyone Talk About Him
The last American prophet
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, chronicler of our era
Tom Wolfe on the Secret to Great Reporting and Why He Never Tried Acid
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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This piece from the Good Weekend Archives was published on Saturday, October 17 1998. Tom Wolfe who took a new mixture of journalism and literary techniques to mind-bending heights passed away on Monday,
There's an essay by Zadie Smith called “Dead Men Talking,” in which she suggests that every writer has an ideal reader. Smith, to her embarrassment, identifies herself as the ideal reader of E. M. Forster. “I would much prefer to be Gustave Flaubert's ...
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 ...
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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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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 ...