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» Friday, April 04, 2008
Posted by Jack Hanlon, CBO & Evangelist
Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full
Hey readers, I was just checking out the New York Times when I saw that
their feature "Reading Room" was tackling Tom Wolfe's
great-text-cum-awful-movie, Bonfire of the Vanities. "Reading
Room" is an excellent discussion about a text. In this case it begins
with an hour long podcast with Wolfe, discussing everything from
journalism to his thesis to his works and then moves forward with some
really fascinating discussion about race and the book as a period piece
(which I would say, and they would agree, that it is most certainly
not).
Anyway, here's the beginning and here's the rest (N.B. like any blog, start at the bottom to sift through the lot).