Nov 21
I’ll start off saying I have never read any of his books that I can recall, but I might just do so now. Just about everything in this interview he says is just so plain and true. What makes me want to cry? The kind of education he got. I’ll bet he didn’t have to do a single poster. I had to do them in college, and it wasn’t for an art class either, but a so-called philosophy class (“Feminist Thought,” it was called — enter your own joke).
I’d say more but I’m tired.
Via Protein Wisdom.
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:18 am
Go to the library and get his collection “Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine”. In it is “The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to America”, where he writes this fairly well-known line: “He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
November 21st, 2008 at 10:41 am
Posters for philosophy class? The last time I did a poster in school it was for a sixth-grade cupcake sale.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
You’ve deprived yourself. Wolfe’s ‘new journalism’ pieces are insightful and entertaining (I like his novels less, though they show Mailer, Roth, Irving, et al up as the mountebanks they are). If you like P.J. O’Rourke’s style, you’ll likely enjoy Wolfe.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Terrific interview. Thanks.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
And if you haven’t read The Painted Word or From Bauhaus to Our House, you’ve missed out.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
So many books, so little time…