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Of the transformation of moral ideas. into imperative fashion accessories. what i mean by that, he saw how fashion when elevated into a moral imperative, was both trivializing but also domineering and tyrannical and exclusionary. >>paul: give us illustrations? >> for example, in his famous essay, radical chic from 1970. the centerpiece of which is a party at lenny bernstein's house, a famous conductor. they miss supporter of left-wing causes. this is a party for the black panthers. they are a distant memory but they were a murderous group of self-declared revolutionaries who wanted to create t...

So few novelist who do. take these two general raw genr defined the two by his great artistic skill. but also as you say, you've got to go there. he was one of the world's great reporters. when he was doing the book "a man in full" about atlanta, he was down there, the reason radical chic happened is he sort of wandered into the party at the bernsteins, which were the black panthers were, and he knew that there was a story there. and he wrote what he saw, he wrote it better than damn near anybody. you know, the great i think one of the best books ever writ bn politics, ever, is certainly the b...

Nonfiction, which is so true. in the time of trump. but he didn't just listen, he felt things, his descriptions of loneliness and despair. "i am charlotte simmons" was the reason i wanted to write novels. it wasn't just a neutral, detached observer, he sort of crossed that transom of feeling thing angst, feeling the agony and despair and putting it on the page. he was a poet. >> our friend peggy noonan wrote an appreciation of her friend tom wolfe in a piece entitled "hats off to tom wolfe." he picked up american journalism and shook it hard and he picked up the novel and shook it, too. he iss...

And bonfire of the vanities" electric always resonate in the moneyed class in new york and in the criminal courthouses that already society's great equalizers. he was holder of phd from yale and new york newspaper man at heart who landed in a literary world too often littered with the effete and the fraudulent. the great artists come along once in a generation if we are lucky. tom wolfe a great artist got dressed in a suit and tie to write at his typewriter every day. the printed page was his canvas, he used words the way jaks jackson pollack used paint. he splattered them but never with reckl...

In the criminal course houses of society's great equal ietzer. he was holder of phd from yale and new york newspaper man at heart who landed in a literary world too often littered with defeat. the great artists come along once in a generation if we are lucky. tom wolfe a great artist got dressed in a suit and tie to write at his typewriter every day. the printed page was his canvas, splattered words never with reckless abandon. he wrote as he dressed with style and precision in equal m measure. he was to use his own phrase radical chic, tom wolfe was 88 years old. that's all for our broadcast ...