Posted in Just A Bite, tagged coca-cola, for god country and coca-cola, look homeward angel, mark pendergrast, thomas wolfe on March 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Coca-Cola was the subject of increasing gossip in those years. Growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe heard most of the rumors, but they only increased his taste for Coca-Cola. He immortalized the Great American Drink in this passage from the Great American Novel, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’: ” ‘Drink Coca Cola. They say [Asa [...]
Posted in Literature, tagged bob dylan, bono, thomas wolfe on August 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Given [Jonah] Lehrer’s offenses, it is interesting that among the trickery in ‘Chronicles’ [Bob Dylan's 2004 memoir] are misattributions. In one section… Mr. Dylan appeared to take a phrase from the letters of Thomas Wolfe and put it in the mouth of U2’s Bono.” – From “Freewheelin’: Bob Dylan, Jonah Lehrer and the Truth,” an [...]
Posted in History, Literature, Tar Heelia, tagged andy griffith, catawba indians, charlotte bobcats, charlotte hornets, chicago seven, lumbee indians, michael jordan, mountain dew, sam ervin, thomas wolfe, wilmington 10 on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More phrase-frequency charts from Google Books Ngram Reader: – mountain dew vs. Mountain Dew – Michael Jordan vs. Thomas Wolfe, Andy Griffith and Sam Ervin – Lumbee Indians vs. Catawba Indians – Wilmington 10 vs. Chicago Seven – Charlotte Hornets vs. Charlotte Bobcats
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged american heritage, carroll a deering, catherine m monahan, hamilton basso, j w dresser, outer banks, pisgah forest, shipwrecks, steamer elizabeth, thomas wolfe on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“In talking with some of the people who live on the outer banks — bankers, they are called — I soon discovered that wrecks like that of the [Carroll A. Deering in 1921] have a way of serving as points of personal reference. One venerable gentleman who lives on Hatteras recalled that when the barkentine [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Literature, Tar Heelia, tagged reggie jackson elevator dog story, the new yorker, thomas wolfe, urban legends on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Thomas Wolfe, the novelist, has just taken an apartment at 865 First Avenue….Going down in the elevator the other morning, he was joined by a lady with a big police dog. The dog took an immediate liking to Mr. Wolfe, and began jumping up on him, and kissing him. Mr. Wolfe, who is only moderately [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Literature, tagged george plimpton, look homeward angel, of time and the river, paris review, thomas wolfe, tom wolfe on December 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
George Plimpton: What about Thomas Wolfe? Did he float into your consciousness at all? Tom Wolfe: Yes, he did. I can remember that on the shelves at home there were… Look Homeward Angel and Of Time and the River. Of Time and the River had just come out [in 1935] when I [at age 4] [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged george b. leonard, human potential movement, look homeward angel, thomas wolfe on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The little town of Monroe [Georgia], where I spent my 14th summer, seemed miles from everywhere….It was there one morning that my older cousin gave me ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ by Thomas Wolfe and insisted that I begin reading immediately. “Four hours later, at the height of the afternoon heat, I let go the book, hands [...]
Literary pantheon: One Wolfe out, one Wolfe in?
Posted in Just A Bite, Literature, tagged andrew ferguson, commentary magazine, thomas wolfe, tom wolfe on March 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“I am old enough to remember when Thomas Wolfe seemed secure in the pantheon of 20th-century American writers, the equal, nearly, of Faulkner and Fitzgerald and Hemingway. He is gone from the pantheon today, and I doubt that Tom Wolfe gets asked about his kinship to Thomas Wolfe anymore. “The obscurity of Thomas is an [...]
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