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The first line of Teddy Waynes new novel, “The Great Man Theory,” presents a classic move of investing an unfamiliar character with a magnetic attraction: “I am a Luddite, Paul typed.” As much as it is important to recognize Pauls explicit abhorrence of technological development rooted in his belief that “technological immersion has fomented the rise of right-wing extremism,” the fact that he is engaged in the act of writing is worth noting.

Hamilton Cain THE WASHINGTON POST – Meet Paul, the protagonist of Teddy Wayne’s bland, static new work, The Great Man Theory. Aged 46, he’s published longform essays on esoteric topics while holding down a job as a writing lecturer at a middling New York college. He’s a bundle of contradictions, assertive in his Marxist views […]

The Great Man Theory satirizes Gen-X, liberal rage in the age of Trump

Author Teddy Wayne follows the life of a liberal professor who comes on hard times in a world with conservatives all around.

You can’t always get what you want.

“Between the ages of, say, 16 and 21, … I read fiction as a malleable aspirant hoping for a world-shattering experience,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Great Man Theory.” “Maybe I’ll recapture some innocence in my later years.”

'The Great Man Theory' is Teddy Wayne's latest novel of Gen X dysfunction, following a writer who wasn't made for these web-addled, polarized times.

A disgruntled Luddite plans an ambitious takedown of society in The Great Man Theory.

The Spark and the Drive by Harrison (So, Wayne at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  1250041244 - ISBN 13:  9781250041241 - St. Martin's Press - 2014 - Hardcover

Teddy Wayne "T. Wayne" Crye, 76, a resident of Cleveland, passed away on Thursday, June 3, 2021, in a Chattanooga hospital.