| | | | | TimesTalks - Man of Letters Author: Tom Wolfe and John Darnton
Format: Audio Download
Audio Length: 1 hour and 20 min.
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Publisher's Summary: Tom Wolfe began his writing career as a reporter at The Washington Post, The New York Herald Tribune, and New York. His books include The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Pump House Gang, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chick & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Painted Word, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Ambush at Fort Bragg, and A Man in Full.John Darnton, the New York Times associate editor for special projects, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter and best-selling novelist who has worked for the Times for 36 years. Tom Wolfe covers a wide range of topics in this discussion. He begins with the Columbia shuttle disaster and the culture of the space program that he captured in The Right Stuff. He moves on to his own writing habits and writer's block. While talking about what motivates people, he calls the drive for status the most important human trait but credits sex with making life "wonderfully unpredictable." He also explains why he favors white suits and discusses some of his controversial writing. |
