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Tom Wolfe
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Hooking Up
Hardcover - 293 pages 1 Ed edition (October 31, 2000)
A Man in Full : A Novel
Mass Market Paperback - 787 pages (October 5, 1999)
INTROWith a Yale Ph.D. in hand, a young Tom Wolfe spends the summer delivering office supplies, before landing his first newspaper job. Wanting to be noticed, he soon develops the techniques of fiction to craft his reporting, publishes short works in popular magazines, and emerges as the chief spokesperson for the so-called "New Journalism".
In a candid interview with the Smithsonian's own Marc Pachter, Tom Wolfe recounts these and other key moments that progressively lead to The Purple Decades, The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities, and the recent A Man in Full.
This program was recorded November 16, 1998 at the Smithsonian Institution.
He is also the author of:
- The Right Stuff
Paperback - 368 pages Reissue edition (September 1, 1983) - In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of
Outer Space
Hardcover - 144 pages Ex&Updtd edition (March 2001) - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Paperback - 416 pages Reprint edition (October 5, 1999)
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