Do the rich have feelings too? In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Tom Wolfe, who famously chronicled the buyout kings of the 1980s in The Bonfire Of ...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
With mounting evidence of better days ahead for both the economy and the stock market, many bears have toned down their negative comments and are running for cover. Bud Conrad is not among them.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.30.2009 | Comedy
According to Mr. Klugian, "The Gates case is now like the first draft of a bad novel that Tom Wolfe would have kept in his drawer."
Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 06.03.2009 | Entertainment
Time, the great equalizer, has done more than bring Phil Spector down. It has sent him straight to hell.
Steve Parker | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
Why does Detroit get only 10% of what the banks and Wall Street have been loaned?
Charles J. Brown | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
Sorry folks. Superman still can't fly. Athletes still can't consistently hit 50 home runs, much less 60. And the economy still can't generate new wealth out of the thin air.
Steven G. Kellman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Style
Snark presupposes a secret society of shared disdain. It preens, reveling in its own cleverness.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business
Congress took a perverse pleasure in giving Detroit's CEOs and the UAW president the third degree -- unnecessary theater while our country suffers this economic decline.
Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 12.21.2008 | Entertainment
Alastair Campbell's depiction of a gauche sexual encounter in his debut novel All in the Mind has won him a place on the shortlist for the literary wo...
Greg Boose | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago
Wolfe quickly responded: "I'm voting for John Silber, a write-in vote."
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 11.07.2008 | Green
New Journalism has gone cold, flat, and crowded, as too many books, movies, and TV talking heads showcase journalists calling attention to themselves. Paradigmatic example: Thomas Friedman's new book.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media
Quick -- you're a journalist who needs to describe the culture of our imploding Wall Street to a largely lay audience. What are you going to do? Reach...
Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment
Let's hope in the current economic meltdown, we find a way to keep our artists and composers close to home.
Variety | Michael Fleming | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media
HBO is eyeing the Tom Wolfe novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons" as a series, with Tina Brown and Ostar Prods.' Bill Haber set to produce. Pay cabler has o...
New York Times | Eric Konigsberg | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media
Several hundred people -- a good many of them graying and decorated veterans of the golden era of magazines -- gathered at the New York Society for Et...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living
This week is the 40th Anniversary of Tom Wolfe's famous "Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test" and I thought it would be high time we take a small moment to re...
Darrell Hartman | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment
Documentarian Alex Gibney, who, after making a film about Thompson for the last two and a half years, says he feels pretty confident declaring Obama would have been Thompson's man.
Huffington Post via Page Six | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
The New York Post's Page Six reports an interesting tidbit from last week's Charlie Rose show featuring Tom Wolfe: the legendary author praised the me...
New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel set in Miami called Back to Blood, which will be published in 2009 by Little, Brown. According to a press release...
Publisher's Weekly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Tom Wolfe's next novel has been revealed: Back to Blood, the author's first work of fiction since his 2004 book, I Am Charlotte Simmons, published by...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Wow — last night's 150th Anniversary party for the Atlantic magazine is sure taking heat for being weird and exclusive, owing to its high-concep...
Posted 09.28.2009 | Business