Wolfe, Tom (Vol. 1) | Wolfe, Tom 1931–
Wolfe, Tom 1931–
American author of Pop-Mod essays, such as those found in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 15-16.)
Hard as it is to take Tom Wolfe seriously, whether as stylist or swami of culture, his version of America in the sixties is worth some thought. He himself is a phenomenon of the decade, a journalist whose talents would in any earlier time have been flattened out and institutionalized by the copy editors of Time or the New Yorker or some lesser slickness; Esquire and the Herald Tribune in fact brought him to light in their scurryings after new formats and tones, and his mannerism did seem to be what the age demanded. For what must have seemed to him an enchanted few years everyone read and talked about his portraits of freakishness in pop society, the teen-age underworld, the T-shirt cultures of the backlands. Since then the fun of his...
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