Posts Tagged ‘Tom Wolfe’

Tom Wolfe is the the author of more than a dozen books, including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full.  His 1965 book The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby established him as a leading figure in the literary experiments in nonfiction that became known as New Journalism.  In his new book, the maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.