Great to be back and a special honor to be invited to introduce tom wolfe and a huge burden because how does one introduce tom wolfe . One read the economist, of course. Two weeks ago was a wonderful article on literary realism and i will quote as a way of introduction. For use tom wolfe has been lambasting the establishment for ignoring the best story around, their own country. America positively titillate with fantastic stories and get its writers ensconced in their manhattan lofts and residentss cant be bothered to look further than the ends of their noses. This week, a moment in American Literature, he wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism we need a battalion, a brigade of zolofts to head into the wild bizarre, heart stopping country of ours, reclaim it as literary property. The trouble turning yourself into an american is you expose yourself to being trump by reality, better sort of critics are forever lambasting tom wolfe for going over the top, using cart
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