Conversations with Tom Wolfe
For more than a quarter of a century he has been the vivid and varied chronicler of our time—from the Californian car customizers and Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters of the sixties to the ambition-driven inhabitants of New York City in the eighties. His hybrid of reporting and fiction-writing has received perhaps more applause than any other literary journalism, and his first major work of fiction, Bonfire of the Vanities, rested at the top of the bestseller lists for more than a year.
Here is Tom Wolfe talking—about the subjects of his eight books, about the writers he admires, about the discipline of w
EAN: 9780878054275
For more than a quarter of a century he has been the vivid and varied chronicler of our time—from the Californian car customizers and Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters of the sixties to the ambition-driven inhabitants of New York City in the eighties. His hybrid of reporting and fiction-writing has received perhaps more applause than any other literary journalism, and his first major work of fiction, Bonfire of the Vanities, rested at the top of the bestseller lists for more than a year.
Here is Tom Wolfe talking—about the subjects of his eight books, about the writers he admires, about the discipline of w
EAN: 9780878054275