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Tom Wolfe
April 7, 2023
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The Curse of True Grit
How Charles Portis’s greatest success overshadowed the rest of his work
September 26, 2022
Hell Is a World in Which Everybody Writes Like Axios
The site’s “brevity” is dumb and ugly, and, ironically, it slows me down.
May 15, 2018
Tom Wolfe reunited journalism with literature.
January 21, 2016
How David Bowie Avoided the Cliché of the Aging Rock Star
Bowie managed to resist the cult of youth that later trapped Mick Jagger and others of their generation.
January 15, 2013
The Literary Insecurities of Washington, D.C.
December 20, 2012
Borking Around
February 27, 2012
Boo's Masterwork
September 6, 2011
The Sharpton Renaissance: How the Reverend’s Reputation Got Refurbished
February 5, 2010
Freedom Agenda
August 21, 2009
Chic Radical
February 18, 2009
Conservatism Is Dead
November 26, 2006
Tom Wolfe On Real Estate
October 29, 1995
Yankee, Stay Home
December 24, 1984
Exiles on Easy Street
March 20, 1976
Familiar Faces
July 24, 1965
Rococo and Roll
A review of Tom Wolfe's "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"

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