Robert Glenn “Junior” Johnson, the moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as “The Last American Hero” by author Tom Wolfe in a 1965 article for Esquire, died Friday. He was 88....
NEW YORK (AP) — Literary agent Lynn Nesbit and Margaret Atwood and some of the forces behind the Hulu adaptation of her novel "The Handmaid's Tale" will be this year's honorees at the Center for...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — They were two small-town Kentucky boys who went to study literature at Stanford University. They ended up at ground zero of California's emerging counterculture with beatniks, hippies, rock 'n' roll and psychedelic drugs.
Read "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," Tom Wolfe's famous 1968 book about author Ken Kesey's LSD-fueled travels with his group of "merry pranksters," and you will find these two names: Ed McClanahan and Gurney Norman.
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NEW YORK (AP) — You only had to look at him — in his white suits and two-tone shoes — or read such books as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff" to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New Journalism" who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," has died. He was 88.
Wolfe's literary agent, Lynn Nesbit, told The Associated Press that he died of an infection Monday in a New York City hospital. Further details were not immediately available.
NEW YORK (AP) — Some reaction to the death of journalist and author Tom Wolfe.
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"He was an incredible writer. And you couldn't imitate him. When people tried it was a disaster. They should have gotten a job at a butcher's shop." — Gay Talese, in an interview.
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"What I hope people know about him is that he was a sweet and generous man. Not just a great writer but a great soul. He didn't just help me to become a writer. He did it with pleasure." — Michael Lewis, in an email.
NEW YORK (AP) — Asked how it felt to narrate the audiobook of "The Right Stuff," Dennis Quaid slipped right into character.
"Who's the best narrator you ever saw? You're looking at him," the actor said with a laugh during a recent telephone interview, invoking a signature line as the grinning astronaut Gordon Cooper in the 1983 film production.
NEW YORK (AP) — It's the end of an era. The Four Seasons restaurant, where the New York City power lunch was born, is closing.
After serving a "must see" crowd of business executive and celebrities for 57 years, the Philip Johnson-designed restaurant served its last meals Saturday.
Housed in the Seagram Building on Park Avenue, its regulars included Henry Kissinger, Nora Ephron and Tom Wolfe.
The restaurant was busy Saturday with patrons snapping photos,...
NEW YORK (AP) — It's the end of an era. The Four Seasons restaurant, where the New York City power lunch was born, is closing.
After serving a "must see" crowd of business executive and celebrities for 57 years, the Philip Johnson-designed restaurant served its last meals Saturday.
Housed in the Seagram Building on Park Avenue, its regulars included Henry Kissinger, Nora Ephron and Tom Wolfe.
In recent days, selfies posted online captured some patrons and...