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Old 05-17-2018, 11:37 AM   #864
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Re: You sell yourself as a man to save.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield View Post
This reminds me... No one poured a 40 for Tom Wolfe.

Like him or hate him, if you're reading modern nonfiction, his influence is somewhere in the text. (And fuck Mailer's and Updike's criticisms of his novels as prole-lit. Updike's riffs on the suburbs were supreme bores, and Mailer's best work was being hit on the head with a hammer by Rip Torn. Unfortunately, it was a toy.)

And Wolfe stayed relevant to the end. This was a pretty solid long-form essay: https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Speec.../dp/B01922I12U

Tying concepts, I'm unable to find Wolfe's obit for HST, which was a thing of brilliance. But this article regarding their correspondence provides a glimpse into a careers-long back and forth between a couple of giants. Sadly, I think Wolfe was the last of this breed. Oh well... we still have about 30,000 pages of his work.

40 poured.
I'm pretty sure it was Electric Kool-Aid that got me into Hunter. Good stuff for an impressionable young lad.
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