Tom Wolfe's Treasury of Patterns: 90 Patterns for Dog Carvers (Tom Wolfe Treasury of Patterns)
1UP (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ubisoft has revealed the names of the first two Assassin's Creed II DLC packs. Continuing the franchise's general appreciation for history, both of the titles appear to refer to famous historical events that occurred in the 15th Century. "Battle of Forli" will be the first DLC pack. While Ubisoft hasn't revealed any further details, the "battle" may refer to the infighting that...
Althouse (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's an old hippie saying that sprang to mind when I looked at this photo (taken a week ago in Madison). What exactly did it mean? From Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" : [Ken] Kesey's explicit teachings were all cryptic, metaphorical; parables, aphorisms: "You're either on the bus or off the bus." "Feed the hungry bee," "Nothing lasts," "See with...
Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
No, the title isn't a typo! Believe it or not, Nick Cave has been nominated for the 17th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented by the Literary Review magazine for his book " The Death of Bunny Munro ". Other nominees include Philip Roth and Paul Theroux , whilst Tom Wolfe , Melvyn Bragg and Sebastian Faulks are all past winners! The award was set up by Auberon Waugh to "draw attention...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Tom Wolfe recalls a dinner with Hunter S. Thompson .
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Bear Market Victory Losing money still isn't a crime. Bad judgment is still not illegal. That was the message from Tuesday's acquittal of two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of securities fraud amid last year's subprime meltdown. The verdict was a welcome rejection of the political class's banker baiting, which seems to have infected the Justice Department. The Wall Street trial had become...
fashionmagazine.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Welcome to the Daily Steal, our editors’ picks for the best deals in fashion, beauty, culture and health. Yes, I’m a terrible reader. What can I say? I was raised watching music videos and I’m a Gemini. But these days, I long for my daily commute just so I can delve into Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book [...]
Pedestrian.tv (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Yesterday Pedestrian had the pleasure of chatting to former Transvision Vamp frontwoman, Elvis Costello collaborator and late eighties bombshell Wendy James . Look out for the full video interview soon but for now Pedestrian can reveal that James' new solo record will include a track recorded at Sydney’s own BJB studios with Scott Horscroft (Presets, Silverchair, Dappled Cities, The Sleepy Jackson)...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Steve Sailer writes: While Waugh wore his reactionary heart on his sleeve in Brideshead , Weiner maintains plausible deniability in Mad Men by methodically depicting how unenlightened the upper-middle class WASPs of a half century ago were. We in the audience are scandalized to note, for example, that even the most respectable parents in 1960 devoted more time to socializing with other adults than...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Amid allegations of sexism and snobbery, novelist Martin Amis has attacked Katie Price, the model-turned-author known as Jordan. Olivia Cole on London's favorite literary feud. Imagine Tom Wolfe unveiling his latest novel: I Am Anna Nicole Smith. Or...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Penelope Lively picks five books "that excel in depicting a particular time and place." That's an interesting criterion. Some quick additions: Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
And we're done! I think.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
This teaser slogan for Jonathan Parker's (Untitled) is straight out of Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word," to wit: "Not 'seeing is believing,' you ninny, but 'believing is seeing,' for Modern Art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text." I love that Corinth Fillns believes enough in people's interest in seeing a 61-year-old Vittorio...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Here are the answers: Charles Dodgson [ Lewis Carroll] Alexsei Peshkov [Maxim Gorki] Publius Ovidius Nas [Ovid] Thomas Kennerly, Jr. [Tom Wolfe] Francois Marie Arouet [Voltaire] Marian Cross [George Eliot] Theodore Geisel [Dr. Seuss] Isabella Van Wagener [...]
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Name: Harold Evans Age: "Carbon dating examination in process" [Ed: 81] Neighborhood: Midtown, East Side Occupation: Editor-at-large, The Week ; author. His autobiography, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times is out November 15 from Little, Brown and Company. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? S.J. Perelman. I hate to think I ought to add he was...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
His new novel, "Back to Blood," is set in Miami and focuses on immigration and bloodlines. It's due out in fall 2010 from Little, Brown & Co. "I kept hearing about immigration. There are a lot of great stories about how people got into this country illegally," Mr. Wolfe said in a telephone interview from his New York City office. "I was more curious about what's the life...
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