Books
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Painted Word
– Harper's Magazine, April 1975.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line, YouTube, July 9, 1975.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the book… More
From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
From Bauhaus to our house (part 2)
– Harper's Magazine, July 1981.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Is Modern Architecture Disastrous?”
– Firing Line, YouTube, October 1, 1981.Tom Wolfe vs. Modern Architecture
– Hilton Kramer, The Saturday Review, October 1981.Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing
– Review of From Bauhaus to Our House. Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1981.“I’ve got Europe off my back. You’ve no idea how it simplifies things and how jolly it makes me feel. Now I can live, now I can walk. If we wretched Americans could only say once for… More
The Worship of Art
– Harper's Magazine, October 1984.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.“A New Standard for Living”: The Lustron House, 1946-1950
–Frederick Hart: A Tribute
– Weekly Standard, October 2, 1995.Excerpt: Hart was discovered. . . by a stone carver from Italy, Roger Morigi. As Morigi’s apprentice, Hart learned to conceive of form in stone from the carver’s perspective,… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Genius and Virtuosity: The Art of Ray Kinstler
– The American Spectator, March 2001.The Building That Isn’t There
– New York Times, October 12, 2003.Excerpt: Does the municipal log duly show that Brad Cloepfil, the architect about to transform Edward Durell Stone’s historic white marble Huntington Hartford museum on Columbus… More
The Building That Isn’t There, cont.
– New York Times, October 13, 2003.Oh, they had thrown a regular fit before, hadn’t they, they being the critics and the architecture scholars and the rest of the International Style crowd, over his American Embassy… More
The 2 Columbus Circle Game
– New York Magazine, July 4, 2005.Excerpt: Over the past twenty months, the ranks of the building’s would-be saviors have swollen from a seeming handful of “cranks”—such as Tom Wolfe, viewed as a serial troublemaker… More
The (Naked) City and the Undead
– New York Times, November 26, 2006.Excerpt: CHIN up, tummy out, Aby Rosen, the 46-year-old German developer, owner of the Seagram Building and Lever House, was posing for pictures in front of 980 Madison Avenue barely one… More
Tom Wolfe on Modern Art
– Washington & Lee University, YouTube, October 11, 2011.Washington and Lee University alumnus Tom Wolfe presented a lecture on Modern Art during the 60th reunion of his class, the Class of 1951, held on the campus in September 2011.
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Essays
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Painted Word
– Harper's Magazine, April 1975.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line, YouTube, July 9, 1975.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the book… More
From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
From Bauhaus to our house (part 2)
– Harper's Magazine, July 1981.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Is Modern Architecture Disastrous?”
– Firing Line, YouTube, October 1, 1981.Tom Wolfe vs. Modern Architecture
– Hilton Kramer, The Saturday Review, October 1981.Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing
– Review of From Bauhaus to Our House. Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1981.“I’ve got Europe off my back. You’ve no idea how it simplifies things and how jolly it makes me feel. Now I can live, now I can walk. If we wretched Americans could only say once for… More
The Worship of Art
– Harper's Magazine, October 1984.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.“A New Standard for Living”: The Lustron House, 1946-1950
–Frederick Hart: A Tribute
– Weekly Standard, October 2, 1995.Excerpt: Hart was discovered. . . by a stone carver from Italy, Roger Morigi. As Morigi’s apprentice, Hart learned to conceive of form in stone from the carver’s perspective,… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Genius and Virtuosity: The Art of Ray Kinstler
– The American Spectator, March 2001.The Building That Isn’t There
– New York Times, October 12, 2003.Excerpt: Does the municipal log duly show that Brad Cloepfil, the architect about to transform Edward Durell Stone’s historic white marble Huntington Hartford museum on Columbus… More
The Building That Isn’t There, cont.
– New York Times, October 13, 2003.Oh, they had thrown a regular fit before, hadn’t they, they being the critics and the architecture scholars and the rest of the International Style crowd, over his American Embassy… More
The 2 Columbus Circle Game
– New York Magazine, July 4, 2005.Excerpt: Over the past twenty months, the ranks of the building’s would-be saviors have swollen from a seeming handful of “cranks”—such as Tom Wolfe, viewed as a serial troublemaker… More
The (Naked) City and the Undead
– New York Times, November 26, 2006.Excerpt: CHIN up, tummy out, Aby Rosen, the 46-year-old German developer, owner of the Seagram Building and Lever House, was posing for pictures in front of 980 Madison Avenue barely one… More
Tom Wolfe on Modern Art
– Washington & Lee University, YouTube, October 11, 2011.Washington and Lee University alumnus Tom Wolfe presented a lecture on Modern Art during the 60th reunion of his class, the Class of 1951, held on the campus in September 2011.
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Commentary
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Painted Word
– Harper's Magazine, April 1975.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line, YouTube, July 9, 1975.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the book… More
From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
From Bauhaus to our house (part 2)
– Harper's Magazine, July 1981.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Is Modern Architecture Disastrous?”
– Firing Line, YouTube, October 1, 1981.Tom Wolfe vs. Modern Architecture
– Hilton Kramer, The Saturday Review, October 1981.Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing
– Review of From Bauhaus to Our House. Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1981.“I’ve got Europe off my back. You’ve no idea how it simplifies things and how jolly it makes me feel. Now I can live, now I can walk. If we wretched Americans could only say once for… More
The Worship of Art
– Harper's Magazine, October 1984.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.“A New Standard for Living”: The Lustron House, 1946-1950
–Frederick Hart: A Tribute
– Weekly Standard, October 2, 1995.Excerpt: Hart was discovered. . . by a stone carver from Italy, Roger Morigi. As Morigi’s apprentice, Hart learned to conceive of form in stone from the carver’s perspective,… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Genius and Virtuosity: The Art of Ray Kinstler
– The American Spectator, March 2001.The Building That Isn’t There
– New York Times, October 12, 2003.Excerpt: Does the municipal log duly show that Brad Cloepfil, the architect about to transform Edward Durell Stone’s historic white marble Huntington Hartford museum on Columbus… More
The Building That Isn’t There, cont.
– New York Times, October 13, 2003.Oh, they had thrown a regular fit before, hadn’t they, they being the critics and the architecture scholars and the rest of the International Style crowd, over his American Embassy… More
The 2 Columbus Circle Game
– New York Magazine, July 4, 2005.Excerpt: Over the past twenty months, the ranks of the building’s would-be saviors have swollen from a seeming handful of “cranks”—such as Tom Wolfe, viewed as a serial troublemaker… More
The (Naked) City and the Undead
– New York Times, November 26, 2006.Excerpt: CHIN up, tummy out, Aby Rosen, the 46-year-old German developer, owner of the Seagram Building and Lever House, was posing for pictures in front of 980 Madison Avenue barely one… More
Tom Wolfe on Modern Art
– Washington & Lee University, YouTube, October 11, 2011.Washington and Lee University alumnus Tom Wolfe presented a lecture on Modern Art during the 60th reunion of his class, the Class of 1951, held on the campus in September 2011.
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Multimedia
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Painted Word
– Harper's Magazine, April 1975.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line, YouTube, July 9, 1975.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the book… More
From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
From Bauhaus to our house (part 2)
– Harper's Magazine, July 1981.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Is Modern Architecture Disastrous?”
– Firing Line, YouTube, October 1, 1981.Tom Wolfe vs. Modern Architecture
– Hilton Kramer, The Saturday Review, October 1981.Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing
– Review of From Bauhaus to Our House. Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1981.“I’ve got Europe off my back. You’ve no idea how it simplifies things and how jolly it makes me feel. Now I can live, now I can walk. If we wretched Americans could only say once for… More
The Worship of Art
– Harper's Magazine, October 1984.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.“A New Standard for Living”: The Lustron House, 1946-1950
–Frederick Hart: A Tribute
– Weekly Standard, October 2, 1995.Excerpt: Hart was discovered. . . by a stone carver from Italy, Roger Morigi. As Morigi’s apprentice, Hart learned to conceive of form in stone from the carver’s perspective,… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Genius and Virtuosity: The Art of Ray Kinstler
– The American Spectator, March 2001.The Building That Isn’t There
– New York Times, October 12, 2003.Excerpt: Does the municipal log duly show that Brad Cloepfil, the architect about to transform Edward Durell Stone’s historic white marble Huntington Hartford museum on Columbus… More
The Building That Isn’t There, cont.
– New York Times, October 13, 2003.Oh, they had thrown a regular fit before, hadn’t they, they being the critics and the architecture scholars and the rest of the International Style crowd, over his American Embassy… More
The 2 Columbus Circle Game
– New York Magazine, July 4, 2005.Excerpt: Over the past twenty months, the ranks of the building’s would-be saviors have swollen from a seeming handful of “cranks”—such as Tom Wolfe, viewed as a serial troublemaker… More
The (Naked) City and the Undead
– New York Times, November 26, 2006.Excerpt: CHIN up, tummy out, Aby Rosen, the 46-year-old German developer, owner of the Seagram Building and Lever House, was posing for pictures in front of 980 Madison Avenue barely one… More
Tom Wolfe on Modern Art
– Washington & Lee University, YouTube, October 11, 2011.Washington and Lee University alumnus Tom Wolfe presented a lecture on Modern Art during the 60th reunion of his class, the Class of 1951, held on the campus in September 2011.
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More
Teaching
Pornoviolence
– Esquire, July 1967. Reprinted in Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine.The Painted Word
– Harper's Magazine, April 1975.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word”
– Firing Line, YouTube, July 9, 1975.Guest: Tom Wolfe Summary: “The Painted Word” had angered whichever portions of the intelligentsia had not previously been hostile to Tom Wolfe. As Mr. Buckley points out, the book… More
From Bauhaus to Our House
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981.Summary from Publisher: As Tom Wolfe writes in his introduction to From Bauhaus to Our House,”O Beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another… More
From Bauhaus to our house (part 2)
– Harper's Magazine, July 1981.Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. “Is Modern Architecture Disastrous?”
– Firing Line, YouTube, October 1, 1981.Tom Wolfe vs. Modern Architecture
– Hilton Kramer, The Saturday Review, October 1981.Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing
– Review of From Bauhaus to Our House. Janet Malcolm, The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1981.“I’ve got Europe off my back. You’ve no idea how it simplifies things and how jolly it makes me feel. Now I can live, now I can walk. If we wretched Americans could only say once for… More
The Worship of Art
– Harper's Magazine, October 1984.The Great Relearning
– The American Spectator, December 1987.“A New Standard for Living”: The Lustron House, 1946-1950
–Frederick Hart: A Tribute
– Weekly Standard, October 2, 1995.Excerpt: Hart was discovered. . . by a stone carver from Italy, Roger Morigi. As Morigi’s apprentice, Hart learned to conceive of form in stone from the carver’s perspective,… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Genius and Virtuosity: The Art of Ray Kinstler
– The American Spectator, March 2001.The Building That Isn’t There
– New York Times, October 12, 2003.Excerpt: Does the municipal log duly show that Brad Cloepfil, the architect about to transform Edward Durell Stone’s historic white marble Huntington Hartford museum on Columbus… More
The Building That Isn’t There, cont.
– New York Times, October 13, 2003.Oh, they had thrown a regular fit before, hadn’t they, they being the critics and the architecture scholars and the rest of the International Style crowd, over his American Embassy… More
The 2 Columbus Circle Game
– New York Magazine, July 4, 2005.Excerpt: Over the past twenty months, the ranks of the building’s would-be saviors have swollen from a seeming handful of “cranks”—such as Tom Wolfe, viewed as a serial troublemaker… More
The (Naked) City and the Undead
– New York Times, November 26, 2006.Excerpt: CHIN up, tummy out, Aby Rosen, the 46-year-old German developer, owner of the Seagram Building and Lever House, was posing for pictures in front of 980 Madison Avenue barely one… More
Tom Wolfe on Modern Art
– Washington & Lee University, YouTube, October 11, 2011.Washington and Lee University alumnus Tom Wolfe presented a lecture on Modern Art during the 60th reunion of his class, the Class of 1951, held on the campus in September 2011.
Back to Blood
– New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Summary from Publisher: A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne… More