Books
So Where’s the Zeitgeist? It Looks Just Like College
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, October 29, 2004.In a famous and much contested 1989 literary manifesto, Tom Wolfe called upon novelists to head “out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and… More
Wolfe’s World
– Charles McGrath, New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2004.Excerpt: Could these be the wheels of Tom Wolfe, 74-year-old novelist and former ”new journalist,” who at this very moment is holed up here in a rented house, same one he has… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
I am Still Tom Wolfe
– Lev Grossman, Time, November 8, 2004.In 1952 a promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is–they hadn’t yet… More
School Days: Tom Wolfe pens an undergraduate novel
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard, November 22, 2004.TOM WOLFE is America’s greatest living novelist. Kind of. Lord knows, he’s got the tools. Is there any author who understands the social meaning of clothes, cars, glasses,… More
Peeping Tom
– Review of I am Charlotte Simmons. Jacob Weisberg, New York Times, November 28, 2004.It’s hard to imagine a tougher assignment for an aging journalist than explaining undergraduate life at a big American university. The project is not hard in the ways Tom… More
Pictures from an Institution
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books, December 16, 2004.Two unrelated items from The New York Times of Tuesday, November 9, 2004, direct our attention to crises in American higher education. The first, which appears on page A16 of the national… More
Bonfire of the Varsities
– Dana Vachon, The American Conservative, January 2005.He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
Big Man on Campus
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, September 2005.Excerpt: I am Charlotte Simmons hit the shelves one week after the 2004 election, just in time to explain to perplexed blue-staters what people in flyover country are really like, and to… More
Cry Wolfe
– Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, April 2006.Excerpt: In one of many deft set pieces in Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, a group of student journalists at the fictional Dupont University hold a meeting in the… More
Not Just Another Ice-Cream-Suit-Wearing, Pen-Wielding Master of the Statusphere
– Bruce Cole, Humanities, May/June 2006.Excerpt: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discusses the impolitic in education, art, and architecture with Tom Wolfe. Wolfe is the author of fourteen books, among them The Bonfire of the Vanities,… More
A Critic in Full
– Carol Ianonne, National Association of Scholars, August 11, 2008.Excerpt: Iannone: Today is February 28, 2008, and we are privileged to begin a conversation with Mr. Tom Wolfe. I want to start by saying how impressed I was by your novel, I Am Charlotte… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Essays
So Where’s the Zeitgeist? It Looks Just Like College
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, October 29, 2004.In a famous and much contested 1989 literary manifesto, Tom Wolfe called upon novelists to head “out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and… More
Wolfe’s World
– Charles McGrath, New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2004.Excerpt: Could these be the wheels of Tom Wolfe, 74-year-old novelist and former ”new journalist,” who at this very moment is holed up here in a rented house, same one he has… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
I am Still Tom Wolfe
– Lev Grossman, Time, November 8, 2004.In 1952 a promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is–they hadn’t yet… More
School Days: Tom Wolfe pens an undergraduate novel
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard, November 22, 2004.TOM WOLFE is America’s greatest living novelist. Kind of. Lord knows, he’s got the tools. Is there any author who understands the social meaning of clothes, cars, glasses,… More
Peeping Tom
– Review of I am Charlotte Simmons. Jacob Weisberg, New York Times, November 28, 2004.It’s hard to imagine a tougher assignment for an aging journalist than explaining undergraduate life at a big American university. The project is not hard in the ways Tom… More
Pictures from an Institution
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books, December 16, 2004.Two unrelated items from The New York Times of Tuesday, November 9, 2004, direct our attention to crises in American higher education. The first, which appears on page A16 of the national… More
Bonfire of the Varsities
– Dana Vachon, The American Conservative, January 2005.He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
Big Man on Campus
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, September 2005.Excerpt: I am Charlotte Simmons hit the shelves one week after the 2004 election, just in time to explain to perplexed blue-staters what people in flyover country are really like, and to… More
Cry Wolfe
– Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, April 2006.Excerpt: In one of many deft set pieces in Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, a group of student journalists at the fictional Dupont University hold a meeting in the… More
Not Just Another Ice-Cream-Suit-Wearing, Pen-Wielding Master of the Statusphere
– Bruce Cole, Humanities, May/June 2006.Excerpt: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discusses the impolitic in education, art, and architecture with Tom Wolfe. Wolfe is the author of fourteen books, among them The Bonfire of the Vanities,… More
A Critic in Full
– Carol Ianonne, National Association of Scholars, August 11, 2008.Excerpt: Iannone: Today is February 28, 2008, and we are privileged to begin a conversation with Mr. Tom Wolfe. I want to start by saying how impressed I was by your novel, I Am Charlotte… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Commentary
So Where’s the Zeitgeist? It Looks Just Like College
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, October 29, 2004.In a famous and much contested 1989 literary manifesto, Tom Wolfe called upon novelists to head “out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and… More
Wolfe’s World
– Charles McGrath, New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2004.Excerpt: Could these be the wheels of Tom Wolfe, 74-year-old novelist and former ”new journalist,” who at this very moment is holed up here in a rented house, same one he has… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
I am Still Tom Wolfe
– Lev Grossman, Time, November 8, 2004.In 1952 a promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is–they hadn’t yet… More
School Days: Tom Wolfe pens an undergraduate novel
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard, November 22, 2004.TOM WOLFE is America’s greatest living novelist. Kind of. Lord knows, he’s got the tools. Is there any author who understands the social meaning of clothes, cars, glasses,… More
Peeping Tom
– Review of I am Charlotte Simmons. Jacob Weisberg, New York Times, November 28, 2004.It’s hard to imagine a tougher assignment for an aging journalist than explaining undergraduate life at a big American university. The project is not hard in the ways Tom… More
Pictures from an Institution
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books, December 16, 2004.Two unrelated items from The New York Times of Tuesday, November 9, 2004, direct our attention to crises in American higher education. The first, which appears on page A16 of the national… More
Bonfire of the Varsities
– Dana Vachon, The American Conservative, January 2005.He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
Big Man on Campus
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, September 2005.Excerpt: I am Charlotte Simmons hit the shelves one week after the 2004 election, just in time to explain to perplexed blue-staters what people in flyover country are really like, and to… More
Cry Wolfe
– Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, April 2006.Excerpt: In one of many deft set pieces in Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, a group of student journalists at the fictional Dupont University hold a meeting in the… More
Not Just Another Ice-Cream-Suit-Wearing, Pen-Wielding Master of the Statusphere
– Bruce Cole, Humanities, May/June 2006.Excerpt: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discusses the impolitic in education, art, and architecture with Tom Wolfe. Wolfe is the author of fourteen books, among them The Bonfire of the Vanities,… More
A Critic in Full
– Carol Ianonne, National Association of Scholars, August 11, 2008.Excerpt: Iannone: Today is February 28, 2008, and we are privileged to begin a conversation with Mr. Tom Wolfe. I want to start by saying how impressed I was by your novel, I Am Charlotte… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Multimedia
So Where’s the Zeitgeist? It Looks Just Like College
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, October 29, 2004.In a famous and much contested 1989 literary manifesto, Tom Wolfe called upon novelists to head “out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and… More
Wolfe’s World
– Charles McGrath, New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2004.Excerpt: Could these be the wheels of Tom Wolfe, 74-year-old novelist and former ”new journalist,” who at this very moment is holed up here in a rented house, same one he has… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
I am Still Tom Wolfe
– Lev Grossman, Time, November 8, 2004.In 1952 a promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is–they hadn’t yet… More
School Days: Tom Wolfe pens an undergraduate novel
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard, November 22, 2004.TOM WOLFE is America’s greatest living novelist. Kind of. Lord knows, he’s got the tools. Is there any author who understands the social meaning of clothes, cars, glasses,… More
Peeping Tom
– Review of I am Charlotte Simmons. Jacob Weisberg, New York Times, November 28, 2004.It’s hard to imagine a tougher assignment for an aging journalist than explaining undergraduate life at a big American university. The project is not hard in the ways Tom… More
Pictures from an Institution
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books, December 16, 2004.Two unrelated items from The New York Times of Tuesday, November 9, 2004, direct our attention to crises in American higher education. The first, which appears on page A16 of the national… More
Bonfire of the Varsities
– Dana Vachon, The American Conservative, January 2005.He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
Big Man on Campus
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, September 2005.Excerpt: I am Charlotte Simmons hit the shelves one week after the 2004 election, just in time to explain to perplexed blue-staters what people in flyover country are really like, and to… More
Cry Wolfe
– Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, April 2006.Excerpt: In one of many deft set pieces in Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, a group of student journalists at the fictional Dupont University hold a meeting in the… More
Not Just Another Ice-Cream-Suit-Wearing, Pen-Wielding Master of the Statusphere
– Bruce Cole, Humanities, May/June 2006.Excerpt: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discusses the impolitic in education, art, and architecture with Tom Wolfe. Wolfe is the author of fourteen books, among them The Bonfire of the Vanities,… More
A Critic in Full
– Carol Ianonne, National Association of Scholars, August 11, 2008.Excerpt: Iannone: Today is February 28, 2008, and we are privileged to begin a conversation with Mr. Tom Wolfe. I want to start by saying how impressed I was by your novel, I Am Charlotte… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More
Teaching
So Where’s the Zeitgeist? It Looks Just Like College
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, October 29, 2004.In a famous and much contested 1989 literary manifesto, Tom Wolfe called upon novelists to head “out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and… More
Wolfe’s World
– Charles McGrath, New York Times Magazine, October 31, 2004.Excerpt: Could these be the wheels of Tom Wolfe, 74-year-old novelist and former ”new journalist,” who at this very moment is holed up here in a rented house, same one he has… More
An Undergrad in Full
– Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2004.Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was of course known as a social satirist long before he became the novelist we know today. One thinks, for instance, of “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to… More
I am Still Tom Wolfe
– Lev Grossman, Time, November 8, 2004.In 1952 a promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is–they hadn’t yet… More
School Days: Tom Wolfe pens an undergraduate novel
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard, November 22, 2004.TOM WOLFE is America’s greatest living novelist. Kind of. Lord knows, he’s got the tools. Is there any author who understands the social meaning of clothes, cars, glasses,… More
Peeping Tom
– Review of I am Charlotte Simmons. Jacob Weisberg, New York Times, November 28, 2004.It’s hard to imagine a tougher assignment for an aging journalist than explaining undergraduate life at a big American university. The project is not hard in the ways Tom… More
Pictures from an Institution
– Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Review of Books, December 16, 2004.Two unrelated items from The New York Times of Tuesday, November 9, 2004, direct our attention to crises in American higher education. The first, which appears on page A16 of the national… More
Bonfire of the Varsities
– Dana Vachon, The American Conservative, January 2005.He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
Big Man on Campus
– Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books, September 2005.Excerpt: I am Charlotte Simmons hit the shelves one week after the 2004 election, just in time to explain to perplexed blue-staters what people in flyover country are really like, and to… More
Cry Wolfe
– Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, April 2006.Excerpt: In one of many deft set pieces in Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, a group of student journalists at the fictional Dupont University hold a meeting in the… More
Not Just Another Ice-Cream-Suit-Wearing, Pen-Wielding Master of the Statusphere
– Bruce Cole, Humanities, May/June 2006.Excerpt: NEH Chairman Bruce Cole discusses the impolitic in education, art, and architecture with Tom Wolfe. Wolfe is the author of fourteen books, among them The Bonfire of the Vanities,… More
A Critic in Full
– Carol Ianonne, National Association of Scholars, August 11, 2008.Excerpt: Iannone: Today is February 28, 2008, and we are privileged to begin a conversation with Mr. Tom Wolfe. I want to start by saying how impressed I was by your novel, I Am Charlotte… More
Mizzou and the Master of Our Universe
– Matthew Continetti, Washington Free Beacon, November 13, 2015.Excerpt: The temptation to dismiss Wolfe as a mere gadfly or ironist or stylist has been around for a while. Resist it. He is not only a bestselling author but a thinker of originality and… More