1. Tom Wolfe is an interesting example of the benefits of reading your opponents. He was politically conservative but very much shaped by the proletarian & socialist novels of 1930s.
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3. Wolfe like proletarian novels for their grit & grounding in experience, as against what he say as hoity-toity language games of modernism.
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4. One way to understand Wolfe was that he was trying to revive the tradition -- running from Defoe to Dreiser -- of journalistic literature. More thoughts here: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/148423/tom-wolfe-reunited-journalism-literature …
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5. I'm not a fan of Wolfe's novels, which are ... what's the word I'm looking for .... cringe-inducing. Especially when he tried to adopt voice of a co-ed. But he really did something special with journalism.
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