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Tom Wolfe

NOUN
  1. United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931)

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  • Still, he persevered, locking horns with Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote and critic Michiko Katutani, who he described as a "one-woman kamikaze", during his career. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • That can seem like a loss of regard for others’ feelings, as if we had become more self-centred, the ‘me-generation’ in Tom Wolfe's deprecatory phrase.
  • To Tom Wolfe, a dandy with an incurable bout of logorrhoea, words are like chips in Las Vegas.
  • It's no coincidence (though Coupland's novels are sprinkled with them) that of all the writers who could be drafted in to make a back-patting comment for the blurb, Tom Wolfe is on the newie.
  • Lost in Showbiz doffs its chapeau to Vogue for doing our job for us this week with its Tom Wolfe-esque feature about who the "party people" will vote for in that general election thingummybob. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • While there have been many distinguished American winners, including Tom Wolfe and John Updike, bad sex veterans reserve a special place in their hearts for Norman Mailer, who won posthumously in 2007 for a passage in which the word "excrement" is used so alarmingly that it threatens to put a reader off sex for good. NYT > Home Page
  • To Tom Wolfe, a dandy with an incurable bout of logorrhoea, words are like chips in Las Vegas.
  • Felker, who was married to Vanity Fair contributing editor Gail Sheehy, founded New York magazine in 1968 and, as a mentor to Tom Wolfe and many other writers, was integral to the development of New Journalism, which transformed the way magazines were written. Clay Felker: 1925–2008: Vanity Fair
  • The Bacchanalia takes place to the soundtrack of hate-fuelled gangsta rap. • How does this conservative look forward to a new Tom Wolfe novel?
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