New Releases by Tom Wolfe

Reissued for today’s reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast, In Our Time exemplifies Tom Wolfe’s writing on 1970s America. In Our Time is a biting collection of Tom Wolfe’s essays and illustrations cataloging and critiquing the state of 1970s American society. In this slim but unsparing collection of razor-sharp observations and mordant caricatures, Wolfe reaffirms his role as the great chronicler, debunker, and exuberant plain speaker of American letters. Wolfe’s joyriding satirical tour through the emerging American archetypes of the 1970s is an essential portrait of the delirious, madding decade.

A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist When Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his next project, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The result is The Pump House Gang (published simultaneously with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968): a collection of essays that chronicles life at the end of the 1960s, written with all the panache and perceptiveness that made Wolfe one of our greatest American journalists. Running throughout The Pump House Gang is a central theme of Wolfe’s writing: status. In pieces about Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, and a gang of affluent teenage surfers, among others, Wolfe discusses the 1960s phenomenon of retreating from conventional social hierarchies, which he calls “starting your own league.” Dancers, motorcyclists, lumpen-dandies, and stay-at-homes—everybody’s doing it. Except for die-hards in the crumbling old social worlds of New York and London, where the confusion is so great that nobody can tell whether this is really the path to the top they’ve taken or just the service elevator. Dazzlingly brilliant as a stylist, daringly provocative as a commentator, and always entertaining, in The Pump House Gang, Wolfe is thoroughly, completely himself.

Un roman à couper le souffle sur le monde de la télévision et la mort annoncée de notre civilisation bien-pensante. À la base militaire de Fort Bragg, en Caroline du Nord, un jeune soldat homosexuel a été battu à mort dans les toilettes d''un bar, et les trois rangers coupables de l''agression sont restés impunis. Mais s''en mêle l''obstiné Irv Durtscher, producteur d''une émission de télévision à succès qui va introduire caméras cachées et micros espions sur les lieux du crime et recruter une strip-teaseuse thaïlandaise... Dans ce court roman à la fois truculent et mordant, c''est notre société du spectacle qui se trouve férocement démontée et mise en pièces par Tom Wolfe. " Un roman de Tom Wolfe, c''est comme tenter de faire entrer tout ce qui caractérise les États-Unis de la fin du XXe siècle dans un même livre. " Dominique Lebel, L''Actualité

A verdadeira aventura dos primeiros a conquistar o espaço No início da década de 1960, os EUA selecionam sete jovens pilotos para o projeto Mercury, com o qual pretendem assumir a dianteira de uma forjada corrida espacial. Esses primeiros astronautas americanos, ex-pilotos de caça acostumados a ter participação ativa e fundamental em voo, seriam agora colocados numa cápsula e lançados ao espaço. Tinham a alimentar-lhes a vaidade o assédio da imprensa - a Fera - e a comoção popular. Mas, acima de tudo, possuíam a qualidade certa, um amálgama de vigor, coragem, sinapses velozes e a fibra necessária para enfrentar o desconhecido. Naquele momento, os EUA amargavam um nada honroso segundo lugar no controle dos céus. Afinal, a União Soviética lançara, em 1957, o primeiro satélite artificial - o Sputnik - e, em abril de 1961, Yuri Gagarin efetuara uma órbita em torno da Terra. Nas entrevistas com astronautas para a execução do livro, Wolfe logo descobriu que nenhum deles, por mais loquaz que fosse, pensava em discutir o que ele julgava essencial: a natureza da coragem. O autor avaliou também que a resposta às suas dúvidas não seria certamente encontrada numa eventual relação de "pré-requisitos para voar no espaço". Corajosos como os soldados de cavalaria no passado, os pilotos militares visitados por Tom Wolfe eram a confirmação do que o médico inglês Charles Moran previra na década de 1920: o jovem do futuro buscaria na aviação o mesmo tipo de glória e reconhecimento proporcionados pela participação na guerra. Os eleitos retoma a história do projeto Mercury e tenta, a partir daí, indagar sobre o que levou alguns homens a desejar correr perigos e tornar-se ícones de uma época dominada pela figura do anti-herói. Esse mistério psicológico é, segundo Wolfe, um dos mais secretos e extraordinários dramas do século XX. Livro que inspirou a série do Disney Plus estrelando Patrick J. Adams, Jake McDorman e Colin O''Donoghue.

Charlotte Simmons er vokset op i en lille flække i North Carolinas bjerge. Her har hun været skolens superelev, og da et stipendium giver hende chancen for at studere på et af de mest velrenommerede amerikanske universiteter, synes hun, at alle hendes drømme er gået i opfyldelse. Men da hun ankommer til universitetet med sin beskyttede baggrund og tro på et højere fælles mål som den primære bagage, går det hurtigt op for hende, at hendes medstuderende har en noget anden opfattelse af, hvad studietiden skal bruges til. For bag de ærværdige akademiske mure har sport, fester, druk og sex fortrængt interessen for studierne, ligesom udseende, mærkevarer og penge tillægges større vægt end gode karakterer. Og da også Charlotte gør sine erfaringer med denne nye verden, tvinges hun ud i et opgør med troen på sig selv og sine medbragte værdier. Tom Wolfe (f. 1931) var en af pionererne inden for den såkaldte new journalism, men han er ikke mindre kendt for sine romaner, hvor han med eminent satire spidder den moralske hulhed bag den amerikanske pengekultur. På dansk er bl.a. udkommet "Kold marv", "På krogen" "En stor mand" og ikke mindst hans største succes, bestsellerromanen "Forfængelighedens bål", der har fået status som en moderne klassiker.

En moderne amerikansk klassiker og den ultimative New Yorker- roman Forfængelighedens bål er en skånselsløs satire over den amerikanske skinverden, som medierne og magthaverne i fællesskab har skabt. Baggrunden er New York i 1980''erne, og hovedpersonen er en ung børsmægler, der tilfældigt bliver offer for systemet. Tom Wolfe ( 1931-2018) var amerikansk journalist og forfatter med et stort forfatterskab bag sig. Med sin stil, der lånte fra både litteratur og livsstilsjournalistik, var han med til at introducere skrivegenren new journalism.

Tom Wolfe, feroz y sagaz polemista, arremete contra las verdades absolutas del evolucionismo aplicado a la lingüística en su testamento literario. Además de un gran periodista y narrador, Tom Wolfe fue siempre un polemista fervoroso, vibrante e implacable, tal como demostró en sus diatribas contra ciertos mitos intocables del arte y la arquitectura modernos. Después de dieciséis años, el autor regresaba al ensayo con este El reino del lenguaje, que se ha convertido en su testamento literario: un texto donde clava su penetrante mirada y afilados colmillos nada menos que en la teoría de la evolución aplicada a la lingüística, cuestiona supuestas verdades absolutas y apunta contra un par de vacas sagradas separadas por un siglo. Por un lado Charles Darwin y por el otro Noam Chomsky en su faceta de lingüista, a cada uno de los cuales contrapone con su respectivo antagonista, despreciado o cuestionado por el mundo académico: el naturalista Alfred Russel Wallace, sobre cuyo destino Darwin siempre tuvo remordimientos y mala conciencia, y el antropólogo Daniel Everett, que ha pasado años conviviendo con la tribu amazónica de los pirahã y cuya teoría sobre el origen y evolución del lenguaje humano cuestiona la de Chomsky. En este libro agudo y retador, Wolfe se enfrenta a la ortodoxia y plantea estimulantes preguntas: ¿viene el lenguaje humano del canto de los pájaros? ¿Es un don innato o una herramienta adquirida? ¿Es el lenguaje lo que explica la evolución humana?

No princípio era o Verbo. Era mesmo? Antes de tornar-se um romancista campeão de vendagem, Tom Wolfe foi um jornalista desbravador. Agora, o magistral contador de histórias dirige sua atenção ao mistério por trás da criação de sua ferramenta mais importante: a linguagem. Em O reino da fala, Wolfe tenta alterar paradigmas com um polêmico argumento: o de que a fala, e não a evolução, é a responsável pelas complexas sociedades e conquistas da humanidade. Começando no século XIX com Alfred Wallace, o inglês autodidata que formulou antes de Charles Darwin a teoria da seleção natural, mas que depois renunciou a ela por sua incapacidade de explicar a fala humana, e chegando aos neodarwinistas, que durante anos argumentaram que existe um "órgão da linguagem" no cérebro humano, Wolfe examina os repetidos esforços e fracassos da ciência na tentativa de explicar o dom da fala. Na atualidade, Wolfe aborda a obra controversa de outro outsider, o linguista Daniel Everett. Após estudar por trinta anos a tribo pirahã no interior da Amazônia, Everett revelou um povo cujo nível pré-histórico de fala levara a uma sociedade sem religião, cerimônias, hierarquias, casamento ou ornamentos, e sem a capacidade de planejar o futuro ou considerar um passado, apenas o presente, desafiando, assim, a visão convencional de que a linguagem já vem programada nos seres humanos. Com espirituosidade mordaz e humor cáustico, Wolfe revela os zigue-zagues secretos, solenes, sérios e cômicos da história de como a evolução, de Charles Darwin a Noam Chomsky, é falha na explicação das origens da linguagem, além de mostrar a importância eterna dos outsiders corajosos na derrubada de nossas arraigadas ideias acerca de nós mesmos. Polêmico e vigoroso, este mais recente tour de force épico de Wolfe vai dar o que falar.

These stories highlight the inventors, racers, and show-winners from both past and present who have made hot rodding the art it is today! Hot rods are built for speed and each is a unique creation reflecting its builder''s vision. The Hot Rod Reader offers similar features with writings and excerpts that capture the excitement of hot rodding, the history of how it came to be, and the major events, people, cars, and builders who have brought hot rods to national attention. The anthology includes diverse contributions from popular writers covering hot rods and custom cars--writers like Tom Wolfe, Jay Leno, Peter Vincent, and more. Also included are stories about the most daring, cutting-edge innovators in the hot rodding field today. The entire collection works like a field guide, helping readers to explore various themes within hot rodding through news articles, essays, fiction, interviews, and more, with more than 60 color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs to illuminate each excerpt and story. Dig deeper into a hobby that''s all about tinkering with machines to make them go faster, look cooler, function better, and exceed expectations. Motivated by both craftsmanship and performance, hot rodders encourage us to push the limits of both mechanical objects and social acceptance, and in the process, they have redefined the driving experience. Read the full story of the hot rod with The Hot Rod Reader.

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity''s complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

Lorsque Charlotte, sage et prude jeune fille d''origine modeste, débarque de sa Caroline du Nord à Dupont University, l''Olympe de la connaissance, qui abrite la crème de la jeunesse américaine, elle est certes brillante et déjà très jolie mais aussi... un peu gourde. Confrontée aux moeurs étranges de cette élite, elle découvre avec désarroi que ce temple du savoir semble surtout celui du sexe, de la débauche, de l''alcool et des ambitions mesquines. Candide et pleine d''illusions, la petite provinciale n''en maîtrise guère les règles. Le tourbillon de sa première année va se charger de la déniaiser. Charlotte Simmons apprend vite : elle n''est pas tout à fait la blanche colombe qu''elle croyait être... Avec cette satire cinglante qui est aussi un magnifique roman d''apprentissage, Tom Wolfe nous offre ses Illusions perdues et le grand roman de la vie étudiante made in America. "Foisonnant, intelligent, passionnant et jubilatoire." Time

The setting''s novel dates back to 1968. Psychedelic indoor sports were trending at the time as more people started preferring it over the beach. Tom Wolfe extends his fieldwork, from London to La Jolla. This novel is one out of several contemporary classics written by Wolfe such as A Man in Full.

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami''s Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor''s life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin'' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the ''hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night''s orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe''s previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

Este volumen reúne dos títulos de Tom Wolfe sobre el ámbito estético que levantaron en su día una gran polvareda En La palabra pintada, Tom Wolfe describe el curso errático de la historia social del arte moderno, desde sus inicios revolucionarios una revo

Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the Year 2000 we can forget about necking. Today''s girls and boys have never heard of anything that dainty. Today first base is deep kissing, now known as tonsil hockey, plus groping and fondling this and that. Second base is oral sex. Third base is going all the way. Home plate is being introduced by name. And how rarely our hooked-up boys and girls are introduced by name!-as Tom Wolfe has discovered from a survey of girls'' File-o-Fax diaries, to cite but one of Hooking Up''s displays of his famed reporting prowess. Wolfe ranges from coast to coast chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers... to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new field of genetics and neuroscience. . . to the inner workings of television''s magazine-show sting operations. Printed here in its entirety is "Ambush at Fort Bragg," a novella about sting TV in which Wolfe prefigured with eerie accuracy three cases of scandal and betrayal that would soon explode in the press. A second piece of fiction, "U. R. Here," the story of a New York artist who triumphs precisely because of his total lack of talent, gives us a case history preparing us for Wolfe''s forecast ("My Three Stooges," "The Invisible Artist") of radical changes about to sweep the arts in America. As an espresso after so much full-bodied twenty-first-century fare, we get a trip to Memory Mall. Reprinted here for the first time are Wolfe''s two articles about The New Yorker magazine and its editor, William Shawn, which ignited one of the great firestorms of twentieth-century journalism. Wolfe''s afterword about it all is in itself a delicious draught of an intoxicating era, the Twistin'' Sixties. In sum, here is Tom Wolfe at the height of his powers as reporter, novelist, sociologist, memoirist, and-to paraphrase what Balzac called himself-the very secretary of American society in the 21st century.

The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta''s grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood''s daughter, the city''s delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist. A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase ''radical chic'' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt. Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program''s money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.

After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House. In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass-and-steel-box buildings that have influenced (and infected) America’s cities.

Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965.

Bottlestoppers offer a great opportunity for caricature carvers, and Tom Wolfe shows the process in his unique way. Preparing the wood block, carving, painting, and applying the hardware are covered in detail and illustrated in detail with full color photographs. The reader gets a clear idea of what needs to be done and how to do it! Tom brings his creative imagination to the project, along with well-honed skills, humor, and some new tricks that will interest carvers of all abilities. The result are bottlestoppers with character, to keep your "spirits" high and delight your guests or customers. A gallery of finished works shows a wide range of possibilities and inspires the carver''s creativity.

"America''s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe''s style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe''s The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism. This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day. "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the psychedelic 1960s.

At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.

Con su característica atención al detalle, Tom Wolfe aplica su observación personal de universidades en los Estados Unidos a la historia de Charlotte Simmons - una estudiante ingenua en su primer año de estudio. Aunque al principio, la Universidad de Dupo

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe''s first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe''s novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author''s reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.