New York was saved by one industry, which is the most important industry in New York now: lunch.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 2, 2003.
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.
