Look, we all know you're not coming here to read this to get up-to-date details on the Iran nuclear talks deal, even if that is the kind of hard-hitting news we usually specialize in. You're also not yet coming here to mock Republicans have a temper tantrum about the deal (coughJohnCornyncough) because we'll probably need a whole post for that. No, you're coming for us to encourage you to eat the rich, basically, and we're OK with fomenting class warfare.
I don't think anyone would be sorry if those millions were going to buy something worthwhile--say, the personal papers of a halfway decent writer of some kind, or an archive of documents that someone might someday find useful for research. But Wolfe is a hack, and his moment came and went with a couple of thin works of weak snark in the 1960s.
To be sure, Mr. Wolfe could have donated his papers to the NYPL. He's not exactly struggling financially. But that would have called for him to be civic-minded.
I once sat directly behind Tom Wolfe at a theater performance. Sadly, I accidentally kicked the back of his seat pretty much constantly throughout the evening. I dunno, there wasn't a lot of legroom and my foot kept falling asleep or something.
I think that's what is preferred, because that site needs page views and this site thrives on comments. But of course just going over there from here means page views for errebody...
The one Hunter Thompson called <a href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/00\/12\/10\/reviews\/001210.10bucklet.html" target="_blank">a thieving pile of albino warts</a>?
I&#039;m pretty sure the NYT admitted that they got snookered on the Iraq story. (Not saying that being lazy in the journimalism business isn&#039;t an evil thing.)
I don&#039;t think anyone would be sorry if those millions were going to buy something worthwhile--say, the personal papers of a halfway decent writer of some kind, or an archive of documents that someone might someday find useful for research. But Wolfe is a hack, and his moment came and went with a couple of thin works of weak snark in the 1960s.
To be sure, Mr. Wolfe could have donated his papers to the NYPL. He&#039;s not exactly struggling financially. But that would have called for him to be civic-minded.
<i>...we will all burn your expensive Tom Wolfe&rsquo;s tailor correspondence for warmth.</i>
Sounds like a real Bonfire of the Banality.
(Or maybe the clothes his tailor made just weren&#039;t made of The Right Stuff.)
He&#039;ll rip your lungs out Jim
I&#039;d like to meet his tailor
coming to a 99 cent discount bin near you soon...
needs moar electric Kool-Aid
I once sat directly behind Tom Wolfe at a theater performance. Sadly, I accidentally kicked the back of his seat pretty much constantly throughout the evening. I dunno, there wasn&#039;t a lot of legroom and my foot kept falling asleep or something.
&quot;Out here&quot;? Where the fuck is he, the Raj?
Ahahaha, you thought it was that important American novelist Look Homeward Angel fellow? Silly.
I think that&#039;s what is preferred, because that site needs page views and this site thrives on comments. But of course just going over there from here means page views for errebody...
STFU Tom, Jonah Goldberg is a hack and that book is a joke
The one Hunter Thompson called <a href="http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/00\/12\/10\/reviews\/001210.10bucklet.html" target="_blank">a thieving pile of albino warts</a>?
Is Little Tommy Friedman implying that the world is not flat - in Iran?
I&#039;m pretty sure the NYT admitted that they got snookered on the Iraq story. (Not saying that being lazy in the journimalism business isn&#039;t an evil thing.)
He probably wrote something about it, and the NY Public Library now has it documented for eternity.
(And you thought you&#039;d only get 15 minutes.)
Of course it was accidental. That&#039;s my story and I&#039;m sticking to it.