At a Palm Beach screening of a new film on Tom Wolfe, Florida society folks mostly adhered to a dress code of white in homage to the late writer. But not every guest got the fashion memo, as five chic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeff Daniels and Sarah Jones in A Man in Full - Mark Hill/Netflix Tom Wolfe novels struggle on screen. His satire may sing on the ...

The Culture Wars in Pro Sports Go On — for Now Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Boom Reveals the Human Costs of Single-Payer A Novel Cure for the Self-Help Epidemic The Extravaganza Will Not Be Televised The ...

Had journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe been a painter, it’s arguable even murals wouldn’t have been large enough a medium for him. The white-suited gadfly of Virginian stock, Manhattan-sized prose and ...

Radical Wolfe is a new documentary currently playing in movie theaters based on a 2015 obituary appreciation written by journalist Michael Lewis for Vanity Fair. Directed by Richard Dewey and ...

Graydon Carter’s weekly magazine Air Mail is rolling out the inaugural Tom Wolfe Prize for Fiction and Reportage with help from Montblanc. Wolfe, an inventive novelist and the father of New Journalism ...

THE PUMP HOUSE GANG (309 pages) and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST (416 pages) by Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $5.95 each. The question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously but ...

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 decamped for San ...

In 1998, Tom Wolfe published “A Man in Full,” a novel about (among other things) Charlie Croker, an Atlanta real estate developer whose business and world fall apart, and Conrad Hensley, a worker at ...

Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own words — and voices. Take a listen. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Aliza Aufrichtig ...