I love Tom Wolfe; I’d not connected his out-of-vougeness to the recent preference for ‘truthiness’ in reporting the reviewer identifies. I remember reading him

I love Tom Wolfe; I’d not connected his out-of-vougeness to the recent preference for ‘truthiness’ in reporting the reviewer identifies. I remember reading him at ~13 - my dad gave me a copy of ‘The Pump House Gang’, and told me something to the effect of: “try to write like this - don’t ever try to sound like this.” We live in Didion times - clean lines and clean sentences - and though maximalism on the page (or in any design) is hard to achieve, especially when written from reality, I think we have room for a few more. Or at the very least, I think Wolfe deserves to be thought of better by the zeitgeist. He’s so much fun!