Posted in Tar Talk, tagged borsalino hats, chet flippo, esquire magazine, junior johnson, last american hero, nascar, p g wodehouse, tom wolfe on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“I thought I’d better try to fit in, so I very carefully picked out the clothes I’d wear. I had a knit tie, some brown suede shoes and a brown Borsalino hat with a half-inch of beaver fur on it. Somehow I thought this was very casual and suitable for the races. I guess I’d [...]
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] [...]
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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