Dead at 88.
At NYT, and from Kyle Smith below:
Tom Wolfe "seemed astonished by America, and over his long career he expressed that astonishment in sentences that zinged up and out like bottle rockets" https://t.co/yi2G1rFNyF
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 16, 2018
Tom Wolfe's Yale Ph.D. thesis about communist writers was rejected for being too harsh on them. pic.twitter.com/6VsLn38VIW
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) May 15, 2018
So he rewrote it with academic jargon and took out the jokes and toned down his anti-communism and brought in "a little liberal merde." And it was accepted. pic.twitter.com/RXCHphsWxN
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) May 15, 2018
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