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Wendy Purnell
Wendy Purnell

@Wendy · Mar 5, 2025

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“An elegant trickster, he bent journalism toward the rhythms of literature.” Love this piece on wishing we had a (or the!) Tom Wolfe for this moment and also reflecting on how he probably helped get us here.

Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?

Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?

The progenitor of “New Journalism” gets his long-due publishing retrospective, and reappraisal.

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