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Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe: Chicago Tribune Literary Prize

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  • ABOUT Tom Wolfe

    Tom Wolfe helped create the New Journalism.  His early writing appears in such books as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Pump House Gang, and Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. In 1979, Wolfe won the American Book Award for nonfiction for The Right Stuff, an account of the early U.S. space program and the psychology of its pilots and astronauts.  His most recent book is I Am Charlotte Simmons, a novel about college life.

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New York was saved by one industry, which is the most important industry in New York now: lunch.       

Novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe captures and defines the zeitgeist in language that is both illuminating and withering in this laugh-aloud satire of the billionaires who profited from the dotcom bubble. He speaks with equally sharp wit in bemoaning the arrival of the second gilded age and the end of the great era of the American novel.  Wolfe also discusses the relationship between a writer’s environment and his work as he caricatures American contemporary life with an ever-curious eye, skillfully connecting the intricate layers of society through the fundamental changes in the way humans see themselves.

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