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NEWS ABOUT: Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe stories: 7 news summaries
OPINION

 'Giant Leap' Was a 
 'Knee in NASA's Groin'

Ever since 1969, hope for a 'bridge to the stars' has faded

Jul 19, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US took a “giant leap” landing on the moon in 1969, but NASA's greatest moment of triumph was also "a real knee in the groin" for the space agency, writes Tom Wolfe in the New York Times. At the time, we thought we’d build “a... More »

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NASA • Mars • Soviet Union • space • philosophy • space flight • moon landings • Tom Wolfe • John Glenn

Scammer: I Forged Author Signatures

'Autographed' first editions brought big bucks in eBay fraud

May 20, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man who made more than $300,000 by selling "autographed" first editions of books that actually contained forged signatures pleaded guilty to fraud in a Philadelphia court today. Forrest Smith's offerings on eBay included books by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Anne Rice, Tom Wolfe, and Tom Clancy,... More »

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Internet • fraud • crime • eBay • literature • Philadelphia • Norman Mailer • Anne Rice • forgery • Tom Wolfe • Tom Clancy • Forrest Smith III • Truman Capote

Analysis

Wall Street Loses Sex Appeal as Big Guns Struggle


Talented people risk little by trying out
academia, government

Jan 27, 09 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - The gravitational pull of Wall Street on the nation's best and brightest students has weakened dramatically, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times, as ridiculous pay packages and the thrill of risk-taking give way to layoffs and anxiety. "The whole cult and ethos of Wall Street, which... More »

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Wall Street • investment bankers • banking • John Thain • Tom Wolfe • hubris • financial crisis

 This Year's Bad-Sex Winners 

Paulo Coehlo, John Updike make shortlist for Bad Sex in Fiction award

Nov 22, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Ten authors have joined the distinguished ranks of such literary luminaries as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe—as nominees for the annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award. The dubious honor singles out “otherwise sound literary” fiction that includes “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a... More »

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sex • list • Norman Mailer • John Updike • Alastair Campbell • Tom Wolfe • literary criticism • Paulo Coelho

Opinion

 Wolfe: Stars Went to 
 Hedge Funds Long Ago 

Tom Wolfe watches as the Masters of the Universe flee New York for Greenwich hedges

Sep 28, 08 1:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tom Wolfe has been fielding a lot of questions about where the Wall Street crisis leaves the Masters of the Universe now, writes the author of the seminal book about the excesses of 1980s traders in the New York Times. But, he notes, the real investment banking superstars left for... More »

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Wall Street • New York Stock Exchange • Greenwich • investment bankers • Tom Wolfe • hedge funds

appreciation

Wolfe on Felker:
New York Was His Invention

And if that's not
enough, so was the modern search engine

Jul 8, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tom Wolfe writes with great fondness—and more than a little self-indulgence—about the giddy heyday of the New Journalism, when he and Clay Felker, the legendary magazine editor who died last week, collaborated on the invention of New York magazine. With a gimlet eye for status and boundless social... More »

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New York City • Tom Wolfe • Clay Felker

50 Favorite
Cult Books 

From Hunter to Ayn, the Telegraph lists books you can 'wear like a leather jacket'

Apr 27, 08 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s hard to define the "cult" book, but the Telegraph compiled 50 of the top contenders that “rewire your head.”
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)
  • Baby and Child Care by Dr Benjamin Spock (1946)
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922)
  • The
... More »

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literature • list • Hunter S. Thompson • Jack Kerouac • On the Road • book • Harper Lee • To Kill A Mockingbird • The Catcher in the Rye • JD Salinger • Catch-22 • Joseph Heller • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas • Tom Wolfe • Ayn Rand • Siddhartha

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