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Too many book critics, when writing aboutTom Wolfe, attempted to echo his style.Zowie!
!And by failing, they all inadvertently showed why Wolfe was Wolfe.
Wolfe, having often been interviewed on television, is highly present as well.
We atNew Yorkobviously have a horse in this race.
Felkers magazine launched on April Fools Day 1968, with stories by Wolfe and Steinem teased on the cover.
you might read Wolfes feature, about the status distinctions among New York accents,here.
It was long enough that Felker snapped it in half and ran it serially in the first two issues.
He wrote steadily forNew Yorkin those first couple of years, then slowed down to contribute fewer longer pieces.
Radical Chic is funny, and its meanmaybe a beattoomean.
It also arguably falls on the wrong side of history.
The Bernstein family isstill wounded by the story, and who could blame them?
Three paragraphs in, the reader is almost driven to say whoisthis guy?
(A genius who will do anything to get attention, thats who.)
One canand I doappreciate it in a love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin way.
Everybody was supposed to let go, let all the vile stuff come up and gush out.
And so what does our girl blurt over the microphone?
Its surprisingly dense with research; in other writers hands it would likely be hard to get through.
The bulk of his magazine work thereafter was for Jann WennersRolling Stonebefore he eventually shifted to writing mostlynovels.
But he did not entirely vanish from our orbit.
Your Honk Is Slipping!
