Posthumous literary reputation is always unpredictable. I don't think very many in 1960s thought that Thomas Savage, John Williams & PK Dick would one day be canonical, although they all had their fans back then.
No, never read him -- and in fact have never heard anyone even talking about him as a writer to read (rather than as a historical fact).
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Sorry you dropped it: sounds like it would have been a fascinating piece.
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Mark McGurl goes long (and hard) on him in The Program Era
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He’s (Wolfe) a bit hard to slog through but better than he often gets depicted as these days. Drippy and needed a harsher editor but the good stuff is quite good. Faulkner by way of Wordsworth or perhaps vice versa
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You are missing out. His books are overwrought and unwieldy but the prose is stunningly beautiful. There, you’ve met one.
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