Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe: The Rich Have Feelings Too - Vanity Fair

Posted 09.28.2009 | Business


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 ...

Bonfire of the Insanities

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business


Dan Dorfman

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.

Gates Case Officially Jumped the Shark, Experts Say

Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.30.2009 | Comedy


Andy Borowitz

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."

Please, Dear Novelists - Get Real

Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media


Johann Hari

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.

Phil Spector and the Death of Madness Chic

RJ Eskow | Posted 06.03.2009 | Entertainment


RJ Eskow

Time, the great equalizer, has done more than bring Phil Spector down. It has sent him straight to hell.

Detroit Gets 10% of What AIG Already Has Received from TARP

Steve Parker | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

Why does Detroit get only 10% of what the banks and Wall Street have been loaned?

Ponzis and Priorities: A-Rod, R-Stand, and B-Mad

Charles J. Brown | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media


Charles J. Brown

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.

The Snark Ascending

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Style


Steven G. Kellman

Snark presupposes a secret society of shared disdain. It preens, reveling in its own cleverness.

Toyota Projects First-Ever Annual Loss; Congress Disses Detroit

Steve Parker | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

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.

Bad Sex Award Shortlist Announced: John Updike Noted

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...

Tom Wolfe: Neither McCain Nor Obama Has "The Right Stuff"

Greg Boose | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago


Greg Boose

Wolfe quickly responded: "I'm voting for John Silber, a write-in vote."

The World Is Ending, Or, What I Had For Lunch With My Friend, The Ambassador

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 11.07.2008 | Green


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

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.

Dim, Doom, Downtown: Tom Wolfe, The New York Times and the End of New York City?

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media


Yvette Kantrow

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...

Culture Zohn: Lessons from Lenny

Patricia Zohn | Posted 10.26.2008 | Entertainment


Patricia Zohn

2008-09-25-BernsteinconductingbyWalterStrateStudioCourtesyoftheNewYorkPhilharmonicArchivespull.jpg Let's hope in the current economic meltdown, we find a way to keep our artists and composers close to home.

Tina Brown To Produce "I Am Charlotte Simmons" Adaptation For HBO

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...

Clay Felker Memorial; Luminaries Honor New York Magazine Founder

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...

Electric Kool-Aid Art Test: Mike Quinn

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

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...

Hunter Thompson Would Have Been for Obama

Darrell Hartman | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment


Darrell Hartman

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.

Tom Wolfe Praises Print, Calls Dan Rather And Other TV Journalists "Idiots"

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...

Tom Wolfe Leaves Longtime Publisher For New Novel About Miami

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...

Tom Wolfe's Next Novel Revealed

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...

All The World's A Stage, But Try Having A Party On One And You Get Hammered

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...