This review of Tom Wolfe’s “The Kingdom of Speech” is very entertaining and utterly devastating, wow
It makes me wonder about Wolfe’s other works of “journalism.” None of us were there at Leonard Bernstein’s place that night, you know?
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I really liked Freddie de Boer’s review of Wolfe on Chomsky. Not “devastating”, maybe, but extremely interesting. I...
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unrelated cause its a different person but I read David Foster Wallace’s Big Red Son and I don’t really believe any of...
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Everything I’ve heard suggests the Tom Wolfe book is really stupid; but this review goes overboard by making Everett’s...
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I’m going to put “licensed savant” on my business card.
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xhxhxhx said: the NYT also reported on it, to similar effect; see the excerpts here theawl.com/bonfire…
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