“Tom Wolfe writes Big and Tall Prose—big subjects, big people, and yards of flapping exaggeration. No one of average size emerges from his shop; in fact, no real human variety can be found in his fiction, because everyone has the same enormous excitability.” —James Wood
The writer Tom Wolfe, who died today at 87, argued that modern American fiction has fallen into sterility and irrelevance because novelists aren’t looking at the world. (Photograph by Henry Leutwyler / Contour by Getty)
Margot Kidder yesterday and now Tom Wolfe today. Sounds like the Grim Reaper is no longer on vacation.
Who’s next?
House of Brat 