| 单词 | Tom Wolfe |
| 例句 | Later, these seven test pilots were further immortalized in the book The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe and in the award-winning 1983 movie of the same name. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z In 1988, the prospect of becoming one of Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe -- or even a gainfully employed adult -- was a considerably less attainable goal for a recent college grad. The problem with 1980s nostalgia movies 2011-03-04T16:03:00Z Tom Wolfe's "Back to Blood" came out this fall and he has more fiction and nonfiction planned. Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80 2012-11-20T12:59:09Z Embraced by everyone from Anthony Trollope to Tom Wolfe, the social satire remains enduringly popular. 'Beautiful Ruins': Jess Walter's dark, clever look at Hollywood entertainment factory 2012-06-21T17:28:03Z Sheehy’s journalism career began at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and the New York Herald Tribune, her colleagues including Tom Wolfe, before joining New York in 1968. Writer Gail Sheehy, author of ‘Passages,’ dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z So what if he had sculpted Fitzgerald's books into shape, and helped Tom Wolfe reduce his bloated texts to publishable size? The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z No journalist ever moved to fiction with the panache of Tom Wolfe. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z It's heavy on the "state of the nation"-style articles from the likes of Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe in which Esquire and Harper's specialised in the 1950s to 1970s. What are your best magazine articles of all time? 2010-07-30T10:36:00Z It was later collected in Tom Wolfe’s 1973 anthology, “The New Journalism,” and it made Mr. Christgau, he says, “the hottest young journalist in Manhattan for as much as a week and a half.” Review: Robert Christgau Reflects on His Career as a Rock Critic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Occupying a suite of Art Nouveau school buildings, the early Bauhaus was “more than a school,” as Tom Wolfe wrote in his 1981 book “From Bauhaus to Our House.” On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z But Jake McDorman, last seen as Murphy Brown’s adult son Avery, will play pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard in a series adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s Space Age epic “The Right Stuff,” which began shooting last week. Perspective | HBO needs new stuff and lots of it. Get ready for more fantasy stories set in parallel worlds. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z But he’s the closest thing we have right now to Tom Wolfe, and that includes Tom Wolfe. Is John Jeremiah Sullivan the New Tom Wolfe? Yes. Yes He Is. 2011-10-27T05:45:54Z The comparisons to Tom Wolfe that are starting to come her way, Ms. Alger said, just make her laugh. Cristina Alger Writes ?The Darlings,? on Ethics, and Fortune Brought Low 2012-02-17T22:28:30Z Having processed the collection, which includes about 190 boxes of material, the library is now briefly displaying a selection from it in “Becoming the Man in the White Suit: The Tom Wolfe Papers.” Tom Wolfe’s Papers Pop Up at the New York Public Library 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “That was totally male — Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wolfe, and all these writers. And that also was open to change.” Gloria Steinem Brings Feminism to Vice TV 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe strolls into the courtroom, fashionably late and definitely fashionable, in one of his classic white suits. Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z If the ’70s brought, via Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer, what was called “the New Journalism,” I suggest we now need a New New Journalism. Journalists in the age of Trump: Lose the smugness, keep the mission. 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Though the uniform seemed unvarying, the components of the Tom Wolfe style evolved over time. Tom Wolfe’s Other Legacy 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Speakers include Nora Ephron, Ira Glass, Tom Wolfe, and David Foster Wallace, and the book also illustrates the most inspirational quotes from each address. 15 Books for Recent Graduates 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The sleek leather-and-chrome lounge’s prominence in adult films was spotted by the sibling artists Rockebrune when they were searching for photos of the author Tom Wolfe. The chaise lounge that became a porn star 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z The phrase is “starved to near-perfection,” and the man was Tom Wolfe. Review: In Joan Juliet Buck’s Memoir, a Parade of Stars and Styles 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z In his sincerity, Theo is a character more in the mold of Thomas Wolfe than Tom Wolfe. Welcome to Another Novel Set in Brooklyn. This One Is Different. 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z If you asked Disney+, they'd probably tell you all about their new take on "The Right Stuff," based on Tom Wolfe's eponymous 1979 book and the 1983 film of the same name from Philip Kaufman. Winter TV Awards: "The Mandalorian" is a crowd-pleaser, but is it an awards player? 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Books like Bob Woodward’s “Price of Politics,” Tom Wolfe’s “Back to Blood,” and Salman Rushdie’s “Joseph Anton,” have each sold well under 100,000 copies by the end of last week according to Nielsen Bookscan. Small Bookstores Say They’re Thriving, Even Without Big Hits 2012-12-17T23:10:07Z Previous winners of the lampoon award whose stated purpose is "to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction" include Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, A.A. Can I compare thee to... a lightbulb? Okri wins 'bad sex' award 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z “Your little inner Tom Wolfe is activated,” he said. Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z It is sung by a white Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist, and lampoons the liberal fascination with what Tom Wolfe called radical chic. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z There was a time, boys and girls — the Me Decade, Tom Wolfe called it — when Mom and Dad wore mood rings, attended encounter groups and in general engaged in a tireless amount of navel gazing. The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z While “The Fall of Princes” patrols territory marked by Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney and Michael Lewis, Goolrick writes with an immediacy and precision that make this world feel as if it is all his own. ‘The Fall of Princes’ review: the rise and fall of a Master of the Universe 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Previous winners have included Sebastian Faulks, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer, who was given the honor posthumously for an unprintable, and very bad, passage from his novel "The Castle in the Forest." Morrissey is a finalist for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award: Heaven knows he's miserable now 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z To borrow a title from Tom Wolfe, he was “a man in full.” Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z How did "The Painted Word" influence you?I love Tom Wolfe. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z The writer Tom Wolfe, who was instantly recognizable in his signature white suits, died on Monday in New York. Your Tom Wolfe Reader 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z He loved all of it, and he covered it all, too, in lively pieces that read like precursors to the New Journalism-era reportage of Tom Wolfe and Terry Southern. Review | Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Journalist and writer Tom Wolfe was shot in his office at the New York Herald Tribune on January 15, 1966 for a "Vogue's Own Boutique" feature. On Set with Celebrity Photographer Jack Robinson 2012-01-18T15:18:12Z Echoing Tom Wolfe’s classic “The Right Stuff,” Shesol acknowledges the sheer courage of the astronauts who risked their lives. Was the Space Program Worth the Cost? 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z I discover this for myself when I go and hunt down my ancient copy of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world 2013-05-04T23:00:04Z The registry will also add two very different depictions of interstellar exploration: the 1956 science-fiction classic “Forbidden Planet,” and “The Right Stuff,” the 1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the space race. The Carpetbagger: Now Imagine Mary Poppins Doing the Twist 2013-12-18T07:45:15Z “In its scale and ambition, ‘Goliath’ has the feel of a Tom Wolfe novel, but there isn’t really any central action or plot,” Benjamin Markovits writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z There, I was the girl writer with all the — Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wolfe and, you know. Gloria Steinem, Watching Herself Onstage, Knows She’s in Good Hands 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Ginsberg and Tom Wolfe should have dueled with exclamation points at 10 paces. Books of The Times: ‘The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink,’ Kevin Young, Editor 2012-10-22T04:03:03Z Stone was back in New York City when Kesey and his Merry Pranksters commenced the shambolic cross-country bus trip that Tom Wolfe chronicled in “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” The Life of Robert Stone, Who Captured American Energies in Intense, Foreboding Novels 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z So much so that Tom Wolfe once remarked, “The one thing that Us Weekly has done that’s a great boost to the nation is, they’ve probably increased the birthrate.” Cultural Studies: In Celebrity Climate, From Bump to Paunch, Pudgy Moms Can’t Get a Break 2012-08-17T20:19:36Z The writer Tom Wolfe was a guest at the family dinner table. The Weitz Brothers Help Each Other Through Hollywood Hits and Misses 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z A finalist for a National Book Award, it won praise from Tom Wolfe, Dave Eggers and writer-vets who knew the horrors of battle firsthand. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z At the time, The Herald Tribune was a hotbed of so-called New Journalism, in which writers like Tom Wolfe used the tools of novelists — characters, dialogue and scene-setting — to create compelling narratives. Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Novelist Tom Wolfe is among the list of nominees for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2012, having won the dubious accolade eight years ago. Tom Wolfe up for bad sex prize 2012-11-20T15:21:56Z Often derided as reflexively leftist — journalist Tom Wolfe called the New York Review “the chief theoretical organ of radical chic” — the publication had no defined political point of view. Robert Silvers, a founding editor of New York Review of Books, dies at 87 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z St. James’ Church, the Buckley School, Exeter, Yale — Gilbert nails the taxonomy of class and wealth like a younger Tom Wolfe. ‘& Sons’: Family matters on Manhattan’s Upper East Side 2013-07-31T20:39:15Z But before The Unknown Hipster, there was Tom Wolfe, another generation's unimpressed art world observer and hipster decrypter. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z He writes about these details in a way that resemble Tom Wolfe in his novels, but with less starch in the shirts, with less preening. Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Before running the article, which was guaranteed to roil advertisers with its explicit nature, the editor, Clay Felker, showed it to Tom Wolfe, another of the magazine’s writers. Barbara Goldsmith, best-selling chronicler of the (unhappily) rich and famous, dies at 85 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z I prefer to get my inspiration from visual art, from people like Henri Cartier-Bresson, and from writers like Tom Wolfe – and he's an old white Republican! Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!' 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z And Tom Wolfe, in his 1970 essay “Radical Chic,” offered a devastating gloss on Bernstein in teaching mode. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z The article wound up in Tom Wolfe’s 1973 anthology, “The New Journalism.” Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z There is some Edith Wharton, as well as some Tom Wolfe, in how he invests awareness of these distinctions with moral and financial peril. Books of The Times: Tash Aw’s ‘Five Star Billionaire’ Captures China’s Changes 2013-08-01T20:48:21Z Because this is a Tom Wolfe production, a torrent of language is set free. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It was published in the New York Herald Tribune, in 1965, and was later included, alongside pieces by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion, in Tom Wolfe’s anthology “The New Journalism.” The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe says that he chose his apartment solely for the view – "To this day, I haven't really seen the apartment, only what's outside it." New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z Nesbit, the super agent whose clients have included Joan Didion and Robert Caro and Tom Wolfe, is portrayed so coolly in this book that the pages about her almost shatter as you turn them. Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Thanks partly to Tom Wolfe’s raised-eyebrow account, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” that bohemian lark has been retrospectively hailed as the flash point of the emerging hippie counterculture. | 'Magic Trip': Stoned Archive: Wild Ride Of the Merry Pranksters 2011-08-04T19:00:07Z In college, he happened to stumble across Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff” about the birth of the space program and was instantly entranced. When astronaut Scott Kelly told Bill Nye about space 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z The author Tom Wolfe gushed about them in his book “The Pump House Gang.” Carol Doda, Pioneer of Topless Entertainment, Dies at 78 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z This self-involvement is akin to the turning away from realism by novelists that Tom Wolfe, in a much-discussed 1989 essay in Harper’s, bemoaned as an abdication of both responsibility and power. Photographing Life as It’s Seen, Not Staged 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Imagine Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" without the hysteria. The subtle, dynamic brilliance of "The Good Wife" 2011-02-15T15:01:00Z Tom Wolfe is so exquisitely beautiful and he knows it, so he poses a lot. Judy Collins Is Picky About Audiobook Readers and Folk Singers 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z In “Back to Blood,” Tom Wolfe tries to do for Miami what he did for New York in “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and Atlanta in “A Man in Full.” Books Of the Times: ‘Back to Blood’ by Tom Wolfe 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z Weiss’s essay suggests this is a new development, but Tom Wolfe derided the phenomenon back in 1975, in a short book titled “The Painted Word.” In the galleries: Hand Print Workshop celebrates two colorful decades 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z He takes in an old sketch, done in bold black pen, peppered with the words “Tom Wolfe” in various scripts. Tom Wolfe Looks Over His Notes 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The New Journalism movement of the nineteen-sixties and nineteen-seventies, spearheaded by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and others, had famously contrived an effective presentational style around obscuring the journalist. William Goldman Turned Reporters into Heroes in “All the President’s Men” 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Five years later, in Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” the Merry Prankster Ken Kesey was downing acid and absorbed in “the plunging purple Steve Ditko shadows of Dr. Strange.” Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z St. James' Church, the Buckley School, Exeter, Yale - Gilbert nails the taxonomy of class and wealth like a younger Tom Wolfe. A novel about fathers & sons struggling to connect 2013-07-22T13:32:44Z Did Tom Wolfe have it right when he claimed that much that is strange and crazy and wonderful in American culture has a way of starting out on the West Coast and eventually filtering East? Fashion Diary: The Tribes of San Francisco 2010-09-01T21:28:00Z The word “me” has suffered mightily since Tom Wolfe’s rollicking indictment in the pages of New York magazine over 40 years ago. Yes Me Can 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z They were the glamorous set whose doings fed the columns of The New York Post and Women’s Wear Daily, and whose foibles Tom Wolfe satirized in “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” Sirio Maccioni, Whose Le Cirque Drew Manhattan’s Elite, Dies at 88 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps no American writer, with the possible exception of Tom Wolfe, so relishes the word “haunches.” Experiments Succeed — and Fail — Spectacularly in Robert Coover’s Lab 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s a bit easier to praise, as Tom Wolfe said of the William Shawn-era New Yorker, than it is to read. ‘Wuhan Diary’ Offers an Angry and Eerie View From Inside Quarantine 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The trouble is Tom Wolfe died too soon. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z In this respect she was a model for New Journalism of the 1960s and '70s practiced by writers such as Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe. Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dead at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Here’s a sample of this writer’s sociological acumen — her ability, like Tom Wolfe by way of Lorrie Moore, to cram observation into a tight space: With ‘Doxology,’ Nell Zink Delivers Her Most Ambitious and Expansive Novel Yet 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z It involves enough diverse players to populate a fat novel by Tom Wolfe. Art Review: Graffiti Art at the Museum of the City of New York 2014-02-06T22:42:14Z So this is not new ground, and it wasn’t new when Tom Wolfe published “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” in 1987. Review: In ‘Odd Mom Out,’ Competition Among Manhattan’s Wealthy 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Now he is a music supervisor with Aperture Music and is joined by Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe in being responsible for the music on “Girls.” First, a Mixtape. Then a Romance. 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Q: Are you getting extra historical perspective from one of the books on your reading list, Tom Wolfe’s “Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”? | Arctic Monkeys: Rock Star Tunes in to the Elders of the Tribe 2011-05-14T04:00:06Z Witness Tom Wolfe’s “Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine,” from 1976, which memorably lampooned the Boston Brahmins on Martha’s Vineyard, advertising their lofty standing with loud-colored pants in “go to hell” colors like “solid airmail red.” Men In Red Pants: Stuck in Old Cultural Baggage 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z But as Tom Wolfe wrote in “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” Leary was actually just “french-frying the brains of Harvard boys.” Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Worried, Mr. Felker had shown the article to Tom Wolfe, his star writer. Barbara Goldsmith, Author of ‘Little Gloria,’ Dies at 85 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z At the core of the library’s collections is the written word, represented by items from those cuneiform tablets to modern manuscripts by Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe and others. A Cabinet of Wonders Opens Wide 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z He was in the room the night Leonard Bernstein threw the party Tom Wolfe wrote about in “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s.” Richard Avedon, a Photographer Who Wanted to Outrun the Glitz Factor 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Both "The Right Stuff" the movie and Tom Wolfe's book refer to Chuck Yeager as being the person with the real "right stuff" to be an astronaut. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Did researching and reporting the book change your opinion of any of the major authors in it, who include Susan Sontag, Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth? ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z By the end she possessed that throaty voice that Tom Wolfe later called “the New York Social Baritone.” How Lauren Bacall Got to Dine with President Clinton at a TIME Gala 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z “If you are not having a fight with somebody,” Tom Wolfe told The Guardian in 2004, “then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morning.” Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In the mid-1960s, Tom Wolfe had profiled the Sculls as “the folk heroes of every social climber who ever hit New York.” At Acquavella Galleries, Robert and Ethel Sculls? Legacy of Pop Art 2010-04-09T23:33:00Z The days of elegant social X-rays as Tom Wolfe termed people like Ms. Kempner and her chic ilk are long gone. ‘Stick It to the Man’ and Other Lessons From the Met Gala Cocktails 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Six months later, in New York magazine, Tom Wolfe dropped his bomb. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z But then, no one ever moved to anything with quite the panache of Tom Wolfe. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe lampooned him as a megalomaniacal vulgarian in a New York Times Op-Ed column. Aby Rosen Is the Life of the Party 2013-05-29T19:51:55Z First came the Tom Wolfe book in 1979, then the film adaptation in 1983 and now a TV adaptation of Wolfe’s story about the Mercury 7 astronauts and the nascent American space program. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z We are living inside a Tom Wolfe novel — call it “Bonfire of the Insanities” — set in the furiously bubbling political and media cauldron of 2019. Perspective | In a stunning blog post, Bezos rolls over a log. And the National Enquirer’s sleaze crawls out. 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It usually takes the work of Tom Wolfe to use them without sounding like a chain email circulated by your niece. From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011-01-15T00:07:06Z A quarter-century on from Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe's fourth novel promises to be another sprawling panorama of American life. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z She was known for her friendships with famous writers, including Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Harold Pinter, and for underwriting literary magazines and a publishing house. Christie’s to Auction Drue Heinz’s Art Collection 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z That leads to a response, in which Thompson references Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese. If only Hunter S. Thompson could have lived to take on this election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z He’s a Master of the Universe, in Tom Wolfe’s phrase, callow and awkward though desirous of affection. Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z In a Paris Review interview in 1991, Tom Wolfe discussed his satirical novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z She beat the likes of Tom Wolfe who won the dubious accolade eight years ago. Bad Sex award for Canadian author 2012-12-04T20:33:23Z It's still possible for American writers to use sports as a lens to examine the whole society, as Tom Wolfe attempted in I Am Charlotte Simmons. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z “The People v. O. J. Simpson” was a tightly packed, almost indecently entertaining piece of pop realism, a Dreiser novel infused with the spirit of Tom Wolfe. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z His writing style suggested a cross between the hedonism of Hunter S. Thompson and the patrician mockery of Tom Wolfe: Self-importance was a reliable target. P.J. O’Rourke, irreverent author and commentator, dead at 74 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Growing up reading Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer and other titans of new journalism it just seemed natural to apply the techniques of fiction to nonfiction. Colson Whitehead: I had zombie anxiety dreams for years 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z While Diofebi’s exposition and extensive footnotes owe a debt to Wallace’s work, his closest analogue is Tom Wolfe, whose breathless reporting and visual detail prompted critics to wonder why he bothered writing fiction at all. Review | ‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z I did not, which is a good thing, because I realized when I got home that Tom Wolfe sitting next to me was actually Gay Talese. Cathleen Schine Writes Fiction. But She Prefers Not to Read It at Work. 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe, who died this week at 88, wrote this deeply reported tale about the early days of the American space program that provided the basis for this film. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and ‘Bombshell’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, when I was a kid, it seemed like adult bookshelves came standard with a copy of Tom Wolfe’s novel “A Man in Full.” Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, there's Tom Wolfe's biting analysis of "radical chic" and Hunter S Thompson's notorious "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved". What are your best magazine articles of all time? 2010-07-30T10:36:00Z After all, the sexual antics of the modern-day campus offer such fertile ground for a social novelist — everyone from Tom Wolfe to Bret Easton Ellis has drunk that up — but Perrotta remains disappointingly demure. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Many of its key practitioners — Talese, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, even Hunter S. Thompson — were straight reporters first; they knew how to get the goods. Gay Talese's book 'The Voyeur's Motel' got the author in hot water. But is it any good? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z As fine a writer as Tom Wolfe was, he had the ability to sit at a table and immerse you so deeply in a story that talking to him was like reading a book. Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Because this is a Tom Wolfe production, there is a great deal of funny and acid commentary on social class. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Like Tom Wolfe — but with less nervous energy and more stylistic elegance — Hallberg climbs quickly up and down the economic ladder. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z It published Hunter S. Thompson’s subjective, drug-addled “gonzo” journalism about the 1972 presidential campaign and Tom Wolfe’s articles about the space program, which evolved into “The Right Stuff.” Rolling Stone magazine has often thrived on controversy. Is this time different? 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The little blue tablet had created a situation where ageing authors such as Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow could write with accuracy about ageing male protagonists enjoying full relations with younger women. Dirty Grandpa and the return of Viagra Cinema 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Tom Wolfe, chief concierge at the Fairmont San Francisco, greeted me in the lobby of the palatial hotel, which opened in 1907 atop the expensive Nob Hill enclave. A $1,000 Day in San Francisco for $100 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z He was known to have disliked The Right Stuff, the film of Tom Wolfe’s account of the early days of the space programme that depicted him, he felt, as conservative in contrast to hell-raising colleagues. How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The image was created in 1987 by the perfect storm of Tom Wolfe’s novel “Bonfire of the Vanities” and Oliver Stone’s film “Wall Street,” and proved astonishingly durable. Bankers in the Age of Bernie: Do They Need Camouflage? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe, who wrote the introduction to “Mouthpiece” by Edward Hayes, a book written with Ms. Lehman’s assistance, said he remembered her as a bright person and quick writer. Boutique Publisher Names New Chief 2010-09-16T07:20:00Z It was the halcyon days of the New Journalism, when such writers as Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Truman Capote used fictional techniques to make narrative journalism come alive with temperament, observation, and opinion. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The interior of the restaurant that for 57 years hosted power lunches for a must see crowd of business executives and celebrities including Henry Kissinger and Tom Wolfe was auctioned off Tuesday. Items fetch high prices at Four Seasons restaurant auction 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The bursts of asterisks, the scattering of exclamation points and ellipses, the syncopated distribution of repeated phrases and capitalized words — one could spot a Tom Wolfe sentence a room away. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The First Law of Wolfe Fiction was that a great novel is predicated on great reporting, which, not coincidentally, was something Tom Wolfe was pre-eminently equipped to do. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z But most importantly, Tom Wolfe himself explained America — he was as essential to the package as his subjects. Review: In 'Radical Wolfe,' a New Journalism lion roars on page, while his life is quieter 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z His exploits were told in Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff,” and in the 1983 film it inspired. What is a sonic boom? A rare sound with a rich history, heard in the skies over Washington 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z If Tom Wolfe had ever written a novel about the European Union, it might have looked something like “Qatargate,” one of the biggest graft scandals in the bloc’s recent history. Opinion | The E.U.’s lurid ‘Qatargate’ scandal hurts the cause of democracy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer were among its exponents, but Mr. Corry was not one of them. John Corry, Former Times Reporter and TV Critic, Dies at 89 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Dubbed the “Acid King” by the media, Stanley was immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s book “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” Jerry Garcia's marijuana pipe takes a long, strange trip and ends up in a Marin County antique shop 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Had journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe been a painter, it’s arguable even murals wouldn’t have been large enough a medium for him. Review: In 'Radical Wolfe,' a New Journalism lion roars on page, while his life is quieter 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z Republicans in the Legislature blocked such a move by tying any processing changes to limits on drop boxes, which Gov. Tom Wolfe, a Democrat, opposed. Why Early Results on Election Night May Be Misleading Again 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z This bygone Manhattan that Tom Wolfe could only satirize in “The Bonfire of the Vanities” is the fundament to any understanding of what makes Trump tick. Review | Trump’s origins in a New York world of con men, mobsters and hustlers 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Before they were books, he published Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and Tom Wolfe’s “Bonfire of the Vanities.” Jann Wenner didn't like his biography. So he wrote a memoir 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z He played softball with Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese — more senior practitioners of the form — and wrote for Clay S. Felker, the founder of New York Magazine, at both New York Magazine and Esquire. Aaron Latham, ‘Urban Cowboy’ screenwriter, dies at 78 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Some of that coverage concerns what writer Tom Wolfe called “status details” — the often subtle behaviors, possessions, interests and attitudes that mark a person’s membership in a particular class of elites. Opinion | The New York Times’s new editor will inherit not just a newsroom, but a cult 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfe ordered flags flown at half-staff called it a "a heartbreaking tragedy that occurred while these troopers were protecting and serving." Pennsylvania woman, 21, facing murder, DUI charges in crash that killed two state troopers and a pedestrian 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The company struggled to be profitable, weighed down by some disappointments and hefty budgets for films such as “The Right Stuff,” based on Tom Wolfe’s book about the launch of the U.S. space program. Alan Ladd Jr., Oscar-winning producer who greenlit ‘Star Wars,’ dies at 84 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Like Tom Wolfe and Truman Capote, Ms. Didion was one of the few writers of her era who were instantly recognizable to a mass audience through their cultivation of an off-the-page mystique. Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z By way of example, he cited Tom Wolfe’s famous essay about a custom car show in Burbank, which appeared in Esquire in 1963. Lou Mathews, an L.A. author both legendary and overlooked, has his moment 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z So did Chuck Yeager, the sound-barrier-breaking test pilot and astronauts’ guru whom Tom Wolfe called “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.” A Year Filled With Death Changed Lives Forever 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Gen. Yeager appeared just as nonplussed after the publication of Tom Wolfe’s best-selling 1979 book “The Right Stuff,” which documented the heyday of test piloting and the early U.S. space program. Chuck Yeager, test pilot who broke sound barrier, dies at 97 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Yeager's success was later immortalised in the Tom Wolfe book The Right Stuff, and a subsequent film of the same name. Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z His exploits were told in Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff,” and the 1983 film it inspired. Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The achievement made Yeager an aeronautic legend — “the foremost in the Olympus,” according to author Tom Wolfe, “the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff.” Chuck Yeager, first man to break sound barrier, has died 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z He later received widespread recognition because of Tom Wolfe’s book, ″The Right Stuff,″ and the movie based on it. Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, dead at 97 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z They’ve got “The Right Stuff” to win the space race in this new series based on the Tom Wolfe bestseller about the early days of NASA. What’s on TV This Week: 'The Good Lord Bird,' NBA Finals and more 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z She was at the center of the photograph, “no doubt because the editors regarded her as prettiest,” Tom Wolfe wrote in his best-selling 1979 book about the space program, “The Right Stuff.” Rene Carpenter, astronaut’s wife and D.C. television host, dies at 92 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z He was one of the famed Mercury Seven astronauts immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff,” later made into a movie. Widow of late John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies at 100 of COVID-19 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z He was a student of the Tom Wolfe school of writing and favored stories with deeper meaning and surprising denouements. The Land of the Lefties - Golf Digest 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Bernstein’s own commitment to social justice was often mocked, most spikily in Tom Wolfe’s 1970 essay about “radical chic”. Somewhere: the aching sound of West Side Story's plea for utopia 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z “US critics write as if they are the inheritors of the mantle of Tom Wolfe or Hemingway,” says Giles Coren, who reviews for the Times in the UK. What US food critics could learn from us in the UK (and vice versa, I guess …) 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z He was depicted by author Tom Wolfe as “The Last American Hero.” Sports losses in 2019: Newcombe, Robinson, Starr, Havlicek 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Tom Wolfe memorialized him as “The Last American Hero” in the pages of Esquire, Jeff Bridges played him in a movie version of the Wolfe story, and Bruce Springsteen sang about him in “Cadillac Ranch.” Junior Johnson, ‘last American hero’ who won 50 NASCAR races, dies at 88 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Johnson’s persona was defined for all of America in 1965, his last full season as a driver, when Tom Wolfe profiled him for Esquire in the article “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!” Junior Johnson, Good-Old-Boy Auto Racing Star, Is Dead at 88 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Tom Wolfe was less impressed at the honour when he won it in 2004. Bad sex award: shortlist announced for 'Britain's most dreaded literary prize' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Based on Tom Wolfe’s bestseller, the epic chronicled the early years of the U.S. race to space and the test pilots and astronauts who risked their lives to get us there. 'The Right Stuff' blasts off for a Veterans Day screening in Hollywood 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Tom Wolfe is now an English literature teacher in Yangon, Myanmar. 'I formed the 45 Metre Underground Club': Eurostar stories of sex, celebrity and speed 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He also connected with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and was described in Tom Wolfe’s book on that group, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” as “the round Mercury of Hip California.” Marshall Efron, witty star of ‘Great American Dream Machine,’ dies at 81 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Standing front and center in a newspaper ad for the magazine’s comeback were three of its best-known writers, Jimmy Breslin, Gloria Steinem and Tom Wolfe. Vox Media Acquires New York Magazine, Chronicler of the Highbrow and Lowbrow 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z With Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” it was in excellent company. ‘Ball Four’ author Jim Bouton smoked baseball inside until the very end 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Great literature has often taken on the lives of the wealthy, but even a “Bonfire of the Vanities”-era Tom Wolfe would be hard-pressed to rival the contents of the Beverly Hills City Council files. Essential California: The secret literature of the Beverly Hills City Council files 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Hersey had three specific targets, books recently published to great attention: “The Executioner’s Song,” by Norman Mailer; “The Right Stuff,” by Tom Wolfe; and “Handcarved Coffins,” by Truman Capote. John Hersey and the Art of Fact 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z In April 1968, I was a part of a small group that started New York magazine in a fourth-floor walk-up on 32nd Street, with writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin and Gloria Steinem. $2 and Some Pancakes Went Far at the 1969 Boston Marathon 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Jenkins’s style was copied by countless reporters and was cited as a forerunner of the New Journalism of Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese and other writers in the 1960s. Dan Jenkins, sportswriter and author of comic football novel ‘Semi-Tough,’ dies at 90 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Van der Rohe and others went to America, changing it and architecture for ever – leaving Tom Wolfe forlorn enough to write From Our House to Bauhaus. Bauhaus at 100: what it means to me by Norman Foster, Margaret Howell and others 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z PASSAGES: Within eight days last spring, two of the country’s most celebrated writers died, Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth. From Trump to #MeToo, publishing made headlines in 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Daniel Barenboim campaigns for the rights of Palestinians; Leonard Bernstein was famously ridiculed by Tom Wolfe, in his essay “Radical Chic,” for hosting a Black Panthers fund-raiser at his apartment. What Makes Superstar Conductor Gustavo Dudamel So Good? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z To borrow from Tom Wolfe, I was making “every inarticulate sound known to heavy labor.” My daughter invited me to a long day at the theme park. What choice did I have? - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The lot of 182 documents also includes a telegram from Thompson to the author Tom Wolfe, and a letter to an unnamed friend. 'Hell and slander': Hunter S Thompson's letters to childhood friend to be sold 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z He was a central figure in Tom Wolfe’s “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” Perspective | The problem with telecommuting? Some shortsighted bosses despise it. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z In “The Right Stuff,” Tom Wolfe makes the case that nearly every pilot in America, whether knowing it or not, is imitating Chuck Yeager, the test pilot who broke the speed of sound. Opinion | Where Does Rabbi Voice Come From? 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe said that a liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested. Perspective | Witnesses ‘flipping’ does corrupt justice. But not because they’re ‘rats.’ 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Relativism, of course, synced perfectly with the narcissism and subjectivity that had been on the rise, from Tom Wolfe’s “Me Decade” 1970s, on through the selfie age of self-esteem. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Before turning 8, she was awarded the Right Stuff Award, which is named for Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book, “The Right Stuff.” Louisiana teenager might be first person on Mars 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z She explodes at Tom Wolfe’s treatment of her family in his article “Radical Chic,” which mocked the cocktail party/fundraiser her parents hosted for the Black Panthers in 1970. Review | Daughter’s loving but unsettling portrait of Leonard Bernstein 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Just how did Tom Wolfe “literally submerge himself in his material”? Did he visit the subways only when they were flooded? Opinion | Five views of Tom Wolfe 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Author Tom Wolfe died this week at age 88. Books: An exclusive Elena Ferrante interview, William Trevor and more 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe, 88, who had a transformative effect on journalism and later became a best-selling novelist, died Monday at a Manhattan hospital. This week’s passages 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Author Tom Wolfe grew up in Richmond in the 1930s and ’40s in a small frame house that his father built and his parents lovingly landscaped with boxwoods and magnolias. ‘Absolute paradise’: Tom Wolfe’s idyllic Richmond childhood 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z I thought of it on the death of Tom Wolfe. Hats Off to Tom Wolfe 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe played an interesting part in my brother’s life. Opinion | Five views of Tom Wolfe 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z RIP: Remembering the life of Tom Wolfe, who reveled in worlds where people stood tall and acted with extravagance and swagger. Essential California: USC and the allegations against a gynecologist 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z I was not, alas, close to Tom Wolfe. Opinion | American literature, and American life, will be poorer without Tom Wolfe 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Just like that, the legend of Tom Wolfe was born. Tom Wolfe, apostle of ‘New Journalism’ who captured extravagance of his times, dies at 88 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z “Extraordinarily good writing forces one to contemplate the uncomfortable possibility that Tom Wolfe might yet be seen as our best writer,” Norman Mailer wrote in The New York Review of Books. Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Bonfire of the Vanities,’ Dies 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The writer Tom Wolfe, who has died aged 88, was a great dandy, both in his elaborate dress and his neon-lit prose. Tom Wolfe obituary: a great dandy, in elaborate dress and neon-lit prose 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z "And into the bargain, the white suit! This was flash of the highest order, and it made thousands of people my age want not only to be writers, but to be Tom Wolfe." Tom Wolfe, novelist and pioneer of New Journalism, dies at 88 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z As Tom Wolfe write in "Bonfire of the Vanities", poor criminal defendants are simply "the Chow". His Clients Weren’t Complaining. But the Judge Said This Lawyer Worked Too Hard. 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Released this week by Audible.com, the new edition of Tom Wolfe’s 1979 prize winner about the early years of the space program is Quaid’s first time as an audio reader. Dennis Quaid narrates audiobook of ‘The Right Stuff’ 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “The problem, I think,” Paul Goldberger wrote in The Times Book Review, “is that Tom Wolfe has no eye.” Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Bonfire of the Vanities,’ Dies 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe is about to publish The Bonfire of the Vanities, which captures perfectly Wall Street’s greedy bullishness. Is this the 1987 US economy or just deja vu? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Tom Wolfe loved American culture for all its excess. Tom Wolfe, novelist and pioneer of New Journalism, dies at 88 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z He’s a former yellow cab driver who switched to Uber, and his account of the coming of the Silicon Valley barbarians has echoes of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson in their heydays. It’s time to face the facts about our digital world | John Naughton 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The author Tom Wolfe once wrote: “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” ‘Trumpism’ is ingrained in white America. When he goes, it will remain | Cas Mudde 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z In its pages, Mr. Wenner cultivated literary icons, including Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, whose lengthy articles chronicled an often chaotic and intoxicating world. Rolling Stone Publisher Sells Majority Stake to Penske, Owner of Variety 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z They all told me how keen Tom Wolfe and Henry Kissinger were to meet me. The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992 by Tina Brown – digested read 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Graduating from a New Jersey high school in the bottom half of his class, he was about to flunk out of college — until he came upon Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff” in the campus bookstore. Astronauts’ pre-flight peeing ritual and other marvels of space station life 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Except in Kelly’s case, that dream didn’t come until he was 18 and a freshman in college, when he was assigned to read The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe. Astronaut Scott Kelly's book is the closest you'll get to experiencing space yourself 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The 53-year-old Kelly said he didn’t discover his passion for aviation and space until reading Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book “The Right Stuff” in college. US astronaut’s memoir provides blunt take on year in space 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z But Playboy was not – or not only – what Tom Wolfe called a “one-hand magazine”. Hugh Hefner obituary 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z More than seven feet in diameter, it was, Tom Wolfe once wrote, “the biggest roundest bed in the history of the world.” Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder, dies at 91 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z When she landed assignments for the first issues of New York magazine, which published the so-called New Journalism of writers like Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese, she thought about following their path. The Rise and Fall of Liz Smith, Celebrity Accomplice 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z It was Herb Gold who actually brought Tom Wolfe to what he wrote about as “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” a favor that went unreturned when Wolfe described him as having an “aftershave smile.” Driving the Beat road 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z What is it that Tom Wolfe believes in? Joseph Rago’s Wit and Wisdom 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe: A white suit in a blue state. Joseph Rago 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z It was Herb Gold who actually brought Tom Wolfe to what he wrote about as “The Electric Kool-Aid Test,” a favor that went unreturned when Wolfe described him as having an “aftershave smile.” Driving the Beat road The incubator was Stewart Brand and Ramon Sender’s three-day Trips Festival, a kind of “super acid test,” in Tom Wolfe’s famed account. The Mastermind Behind Coachella 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Glenn, who author Tom Wolfe once called "the last true national hero America has ever had," died four months ago in his home state of Ohio at the age of 95. Astronaut John Glenn laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z For Tom Wolfe it was “the chief theoretical organ of radical chic”, and Bellow derided “the New York Review of each other’s books”. Robert Silvers obituary 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Writer Tom Wolfe mocked it as "the chief theoretical organ of Radical Chic". New York Review of Books editor Robert B Silvers dies - BBC News 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z More than 20 years earlier, with Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe, he had helped create “New Journalism” – a more literary approach to news reporting. Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies at age of 87 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Shortly before he ran for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination, a new generation was introduced to astronaut Glenn with the film adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book “The Right Stuff.” John Glenn, the 1st American to orbit Earth, dies at age 95 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Director/screenwriter Philip Kaufman has reached into Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff,” a hyperventilated account of America’s entry into the space age, and pulled out a plum. Our original film review of 'The Right Stuff' holds clues for John Glenn's path to senator 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Tom Wolfe wrote of that time in the best-selling 1979 book “The Right Stuff,” a phrase for coolness in the face of danger that has passed into the idiom. John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The session will be followed by a 12:30 p.m. screening of “The Right Stuff,” Kaufman’s splendid, still-thrilling 1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel. Cinefamily salutes Philip Kaufman with master class 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z In light of all this, I had expected to find someone a little mannered, a touch absurd in the Tom Wolfe style. Jay McInerney: 'You can only blow up your life so many times before it becomes ridiculous' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Certainly by 1981, when Tom Wolfe published From Bauhaus to Our House, brutalism had become something to hate, a symbol of everything that was wrong with modern architecture. Grey pride: why brutalist architecture is back in style 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The author Tom Wolfe, a friend, described Mr. Timoney as an intellectual who organized a book club while in Philadelphia that tackled works by James Joyce and Dostoyevsky. John Timoney, Longtime Police Leader, Is Recalled at His Funeral as ‘One of a Kind’ 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe is known for two things: his trademark prose, liberally studded with exclamation marks, italics and ellipses, and the way he wields it to demolish pompous, status-seeking, class-conscious Americans. His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z America’s “most widespread age-related disease,” Tom Wolfe has written, “was not senility but juvenility. The social ideal was to look 23 and dress 13.” The greatness of Vin Scully: baseball’s storyteller, our friend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z But, unlike a social satirist such as Tom Wolfe, McInerney is equally deft at capturing personality traits. Jay McInerney’s Middle-Aged Malaise 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z To punctuate the point, the lineup of speakers in Philadelphia on Thursday included Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolfe. Hillary Clinton will accept the Democratic nomination for president on climactic final night of convention 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z White’s inspiration is clearly Tom Wolfe’s classic “The Right Stuff,” and his focus is on the test pilots who started out flying hot jets in the military and saw the shuttle as the ultimate challenge. The right stuff behind the first luanch of the space shuttle Columbia 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z There is a graphic description of the process in the early chapters of Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full", which, according to my veterinarian friends, is highly accurate. Horse Sex: How the Winners Do It 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But others might see a more florid canvas of envy and antipathy, Tom Wolfe’s New York, a Staten Island Ferry of the mind. Cruz and Kasich (and the G.O.P.) Give Up on the Northeast 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Gay Talese, the 84-year-old writer who was named by Tom Wolfe as the inventor of the New Journalism, on Saturday found himself at the centre of a shock of the very new media. Gay Talese in Twitter storm after failing to name inspirational female writers 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z After The Right Stuff made him a heap of money, a fully self-sufficient Tom Wolfe was going to scale the north face of Parnassus if it killed him. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 7 – The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z A coveted prize for a cerebral set of New Yorkers, the Century attracts a mélange of literary stars, civic titans, politicians and celebrities that can resemble the cast of a Tom Wolfe novel. With Election of Female President, a New Era for a Former Boys Club 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z University of Missouri President Tom Wolfe is resigning amid protests students and faculty say are due to endemic racism at the school. US university chief quits in race row - BBC News 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Decades ago, Tom Wolfe unveiled his New Journalism as an antidote to the stale, drama-less reporting that had characterized nonfiction writing. At National Geographic: A New Push to Protect Wildlife 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z From an interview with author Tom Wolfe by the National Endowment for the Humanities, on the occasion of his being honored as the NEH’s Jefferson Lecturer in 2006: Notable & Quotable: Tom Wolfe 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe responded with what he later described as just “some ordinary curiosity”. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 7 – The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “At work, Hamilton was, to borrow Tom Wolfe’s term, a Master of the Universe,” Professor White, who teaches history at the University of Sydney in Australia, writes. In 2 Books, It’s All About the Hamiltons 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z “City of Fire” will probably be compared with Tom Wolfe’s big, class-intersecting novel about New York in the nineteen-eighties, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” New York, from Punk to Trump 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe titled “Bonfire of the Vanities” after the friar’s famous sponsorship of the public burning of books, secular art and other sin-inducing objects in 1497. Spiritual leader of a medieval city in crisis 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe quotes Merry Prankster Ken Kesey: “You're either on the bus or off the bus.” The Difference between Science and Pseudoscience 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe published his novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities” in installments in the magazine. Rolling Stone Moves Beyond the Fray 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Years after Atlanta native James Dickey wrote the poem Looking for the Buckhead Boys, in which the elite Atlanta neighbourhood of Buckhead symbolises an Atlanta long gone, Tom Wolfe published A Man in Full. Reading American cities: books about Atlanta 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Park Avenue is also home to the “masters of the universe”, a term made famous by Tom Wolfe in his age of greed classic The Bonfire of the Vanities. Gone native: how Manhattan’s richest women follow the laws of the jungle 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z As I approached my bike across the street I spotted a small delegation of illiberal youths, to borrow from Tom Wolfe, working on my locks. Baseball Bat Used To Defend Home Turns Out To Be $100K Lou Gehrig Gamer 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Some New York novels, like Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, relish in the details of the city, gathering narrative strength from brands of shoes and names of restaurants. Author Hanya Yanagihara's Not-So-Little Life 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Kelly joked about the name of the Democratic candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, by pretending to mistake him for the author Tom Wolfe. The Megyn Kelly Moment 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z That’s why satirists are often nostalgists, like Tom Wolfe, who longs for the wild and crazy American past, or Evelyn Waugh, with his ascendant American vulgarians and his idealized lost Catholic aristocracy. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Pioneers of New Journalism like Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer wanted to blur the line between literature and reportage by infusing true stories with verbal pyrotechnics and eccentric narrative voice. The Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It published Hunter S. Thompson's subjective, drug-addled "gonzo" journalism about the 1972 presidential campaign and Tom Wolfe's articles about the space program, which evolved into "The Right Stuff." Rape article controversy has plunged Rolling Stone into its deepest crisis 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Democratic businessman Tom Wolfe will become the state’s next governor. GOP loses Pennsylvania governorship: Dem Tom Wolfe defeats Tom Corbett 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z In “The Right Stuff” Tom Wolfe revealed that the seven Mercury astronauts – the cockiest, most sneeringly confident fighter pilots on the planet – were terrified all the time. Why The U.S. Keeps Losing The Ryder Cup: The S-Word 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Eddie Hayes, the legendary trial lawyer immortalized as Tommy Killian by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities, came up to the bench to chat, dressed in a customarily natty suit. Did a Son's Autism Drive a Woman to Murder? An obvious comparison is to Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, which had been published the previous year. Grasping Ferguson Through Franzen: St. Louis and Its ‘Tragic Glory’ Even as they entered their 30s, the writer Tom Wolfe labeled the era the “Me Decade.” Marketers Are Sizing Up the Millennials as the New Consumer Model 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In “The Right Stuff” Tom Wolfe’s characters say, ‘Please God, don’t let me screw up’ – the astronaut’s prayer,” said Cameron. A Chat With James Cameron And His 'Deepsea Challenge 3D' Premiere 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Tom Wolfe, the author, who once read some of Mr. Dennis’s poems publicly, likened the work to Kipling. Felix Dennis, 67, Flamboyant Publisher, Is Dead 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Writer Tom Wolfe said what made Poe special as a poet was his mastery of language and an ability to use words to create a sound that was sublime. Letters show evidence of Poe’s imagination 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z But the tapes and film gave author Tom Wolfe the material he needed for his 1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which made the trip a touchstone of the psychedelic era. Ken Kesey's son enlists Kickstarter to recreate Merry Pranksters bus ride 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z But the tapes and film gave author Tom Wolfe the material he needed for his 1968 book, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” which made the trip a touchstone of the psychedelic era. Psychedelic bus gears up for 50th anniversary 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Such was Nuts' benefaction to the profession of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson. R.I.P. Nuts magazine 2014-04-01T12:56:45Z The University of North Carolina has entered its Tom Wolfe phase, revealing a racial subtext of the uniquely ironic and bitter American variety. UNC Academic Fraud Scandal Sparks Racial Recriminations 2014-02-04T14:50:08Z November 27, 2013 Tom Wolfe himself couldn’t have imagined a better New York juxtaposition. What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers and the Economy 2013-11-27T11:00:38Z “The real thing customers wanted was to pay down their mortgage,” Tom Wolfe, Wells Fargo's executive vice president for consumer credit solutions, said in a recent interview. Wells Fargo to offer credit card that helps cut debt 2013-08-05T22:40:00Z His verse is unashamedly old fashioned and populist and has been lauded by Stephen Fry, Melvyn Bragg and even Tom Wolfe, who described him as "a latter-day Kipling". The nine lives of Felix Dennis: "I've lived an unbelievable life, even if I did do my best to kill myself" 2013-06-01T23:04:05Z He was unanimously accepted as a new generation's Tom Wolfe. Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan – review 2013-03-31T13:30:01Z While the blogosphere has yet to find its Tom Wolfe, the newspaper industry still has a critical role to play: It could be at the forefront of this essential evolution in journalism. We need a new era of digital journalism 2013-02-18T13:44:00Z Tom Wolfe says something in his book The Painted Word about how four curators, 12 collectors and six critics determine an artist's career. When Brian Eno met Ha-Joon Chang 2012-11-11T19:00:01Z They took Scandalous to the Columbus Day regatta most years, the party to end all parties, an event the writer Tom Wolfe recently called the “most hedonistic” he ever witnessed. Luther Campbell Has a New Gig, and a New Rap for His Players 2012-11-05T21:51:23Z One conspicuous exception was Jamieson, a man who has what Tom Wolfe called "the right stuff". The story of London 2012: Guardian writers' Olympic Games review 2012-08-12T21:46:11Z Meanwhile, various people are calling him the next Tom Wolfe this and the new Hunter S Thompson that. Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan – review 2012-08-09T10:00:01Z Other than that, here’s a fitting excerpt, with a couple modifications, from Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff”. Nationals trickling into Viera as spring training nears 2012-02-17T22:18:00Z We were lined up at these events that Tom Wolfe named Radical Chic. Jamal Joseph: From Gun-Toting Black Panther to Ivy League Professor 2012-02-09T12:06:20Z Atlanta’s boom and bust property market set the stage for Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel ‘A Man in Full” that portrayed an ego- driven Southerner who builds an empire of office complexes. American Foreclosure Bottoms at Atlanta Tower Auction: Mortgages 2012-02-06T07:44:39Z “One of them, against Princeton’s No. 1 senior, El Halaby, the best player in college squash history, was the best match I ever saw,” said the author Tom Wolfe, whose son played for Trinity. Trinity?s Record Winning Streak Ends at 252 2012-01-20T01:23:35Z Previously won by Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Jonathan Littell, the Bad Sex in Fiction contest seeks to dishonor the author of the year’s “most embarrassing passages of sexual description in a literary novel.” Bad Sex in Fiction Award Goes to Guterson, Sparing King, Frey 2011-12-06T23:04:38Z In his 1979 book about America’s first generation of astronauts, Tom Wolfe spoke of the quality they most prized, “an uncritical willingness to face danger.” Jim Rathmann, 1960 Indianapolis 500 Winner, Dies at 83 2011-12-03T03:02:52Z Tom Wolfe marveled at the test pilots of Edwards Air Force Base in his 1979 book “The Right Stuff” exclaiming, “My God — to be part of Edwards in the late forties and early fifties!” Kit Murray, Test Pilot Who Reached New Heights, Dies at 92 2011-08-04T15:48:29Z Beyond his physical gifts and technical mastery, however, he was known for his courage and the kind of bravado attributed to fighter pilots and astronauts — “the right stuff,” in the writer Tom Wolfe’s phrase. Nikolai Andrianov, Gymnastics Icon, Dies at 58 2011-03-23T00:14:18Z "He seemed to be able to play these little games with his adversaries at will," says Tom Wolfe in The Right Stuff. Sergei Korolev: the rocket genius behind Yuri Gagarin 2011-03-13T00:05:08Z Tom Wolfe made the noun a clever verb: to mau-mau was the act of black people intimidating white people. Huckabucking 2011-03-10T07:30:00Z Perhaps only the pen of Tom Wolfe could do justice to these harassed, bald, middle-aged masters of the universe, as they appear in Ferguson's film. Inside Job ? review 2011-02-17T14:59:01Z Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe say the Hicks-Gillett ownership model merely tipped the balance too far towards short-term borrowing, without the necessary success on the pitch to support the debt. Tom Hicks and George Gillett find pain not riches in Anfield gold mine 2010-10-08T07:00:00Z If I were to characterize them I'd say they really remind me of the test pilots Tom Wolfe wrote about in The Right Stuff. Surfing the World's Biggest Waves 2010-09-30T07:30:00Z It's as painful as reading through Tom Wolfe's clumsy recreation of modern college life in his novel I Am Charlotte Simmons. 'The Social Network' Doesn't Live Up To Hype 2010-09-29T22:00:00Z Le Cirque attracted the boldface names that would, in time, be immortalized by Tom Wolfe in “The Bonfire of the Vanities”: rich businessmen, Wall Street movers, real estate tycoons and soigné socialites. Jean Vergnes, Who Helped Open Le Cirque, Dies at 88 2010-04-23T02:16:00Z The Eliot Spitzer story plays like a novel that might have been plotted by Theodore Dreiser and peopled with characters by Tom Wolfe. Books of The Times: ?Rough Justice? by Peter Elkind, on Eliot Spitzer 2010-04-15T21:46:00Z He was inspired to join the space program, he said, by the camaraderie between the astronauts in the 1983 movie “The Right Stuff,” based on the book by Tom Wolfe. Fixing the Hubble, and Seeing What It Sees, in Imax and 3-D 2010-04-05T20:12:00Z I play with my three cats: Coco Chanel, Rachmaninoff and Tom Wolfe. Sunday Routine | Judy Collins: She Always Cooks With Onions 2010-02-20T00:27:00Z No relation to the novelist Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe has written only one short piece of fiction in his life. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s Just to twist heads, some males writers go for the Tom Wolfe effete look— blue blazer and wing-tips. The Cyberpunk Fakebook The really troubling thing for me was that when I set out to write my novel, another novel called "The Bonfire of the Vanities," by Tom Wolfe, had taken the reading population by storm. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko It is Tom Wolfe at his very best. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s And I suddenly was made aware by publicity that there was something called the Tom Wolfe style. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s Three of my interviews — Isaac Asimov, Alan Lomax and Tom Wolfe — were originally published in two different versions, one for the TV Shopper and a longer one for the Westsider, a weekly community newspaper. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s Thus was Tom Wolfe established as one of the most important new talents in American journalism. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s |
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