RIP Tom Wolfe, media master and literary brawler
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The author Tom Wolfe, who died Monday at 88, is being remembered with a lot of richly deserved encomiums, including “genre-breaking” (NPR), “iconic” (GQ) and “pioneering” (The Guardian). The New York Times even called him “pyrotechnic” in the loveliest obit”Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic ‘New Journalist’ and Novelist, Dies at 88″I’ve seen so far.
Deirdre Carmody and William Grimes write that Wolfe’s …
… technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan’s moneyed status-seekers in works like “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” “The Right Stuff” and “Bonfire of the Vanities” … His talent as a writer and caricaturist was evident from the start in his verbal pyrotechnics and perfect mimicry of speech patterns, his meticulous reporting, and his creative use of pop language and explosive punctuation.
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