San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Amid the wreckage of the U.S. financial system, a new consensus is taking shape. Old Wall Street is dead. And the new era of finance will be one of much greater regulation and much less risk. The masters of the universe, as author Tom Wolfe dubbed the titans...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
A couple of weeks ago, Tom Blumer wrote at Pajamas, "Very Different Economic Times in Red vs. Blue States"; certainly the very blue "parentheses states", as Tom Wolfe described them, have been having a tough time making a go of...
Population Statistic (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I don’t know where I suddenly picked it up, but of late, I seem to be favoring the term “screw the pooch”. Aside from its aptness for describing a fouled-up situation (as popularized, if not necessarily originated, in Tom Wolfe’s “The Right Stuff”), I’m not sure enough things are blowing up around me to qualify for [...]
Queer Conservative (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe. ~ Tom Wolfe (Referencing French Socialist Jean-François Revel) Far Right Wins In Austria... Not the conservatives; the fascists: The far Right has made a grand return in Austria, emerging from yesterday’s elections as the second biggest parliamentary block, according to preliminary results. The two parties...
Knownunknowns (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Greenwich Time N.Y. TIMES by TOM WOLFE, Sep. 28 EXCERPT: Shed no tears for the Masters of the Universe, however, not that your correspondent actually thought you might. Most of the young Masters already have their own personal nut free and clear. “Nut” is the term for the amount of money you need salted away in weather-proof investments in order to generate enough interest to live comfortably in Greenwich...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Proving that hedge funds may indeed be the new investment banks (as Tom Wolfe told The Observer earlier this month ), new hedge fund Dabroes Management has signed for 12,202 square feet on the 24th floor of 1095 Avenue of the Americas, the forme Equity Office Properties tower that's undergone $275 million in recent renovations, including a green curtainwall. A summer 2007 article in the New York Post...
Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Tom Wolfe on the fate of the Masters of the Universe: Be aware that your correspondent is merely bringing you the news when he reports how many people have besieged the author of “The Bonfire of the Vanities” over the past week with the question, “Where does this leave the Masters of the Universe now?” “This” refers [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
By TOM WOLFE NYT Be aware that your correspondent is merely bringing you the news when he reports how many people have besieged the author of “The Bonfire of the Vanities” over the past week with the question, “Where does this leave the Masters of the Universe now?” “This” refers to the current credit panic. The Masters of the Universe is a phrase from that book referring to ambitious young men (there...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. HBO Eyes Charlotte Simmons Series -- With Tina Brown as Producer ( Variety ) HBO is eyeing the Tom Wolfe novel I Am Charlotte Simmons as a series, with Tina Brown and Ostar Prods.' Bill Haber set to produce. The network has optioned the 2004 bestseller and is in the early stages of developing the project as an hour-long series. It's...
Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County — Two cars were involved in a crash that led to several injuries Thursday morning, Sept. 25, on North Dixie Drive near Embury Park Road, according to Sgt. Tom Wolfe of the Montgomery County Sheriff's office.
Televisionary (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. USA Today's Robert Bianco reviews tonight's season premiere of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, saying that the two-hour launch "completes the task begun last spring, clearing away dead plots and setting this massively entertaining series back on track." And fans will be happy to know that it seems like--for now anyway--Mer and Der and united. Time will tell...
Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Ex-New Yorker editor developing show based on 'Charlotte Simmons' The work of a great American novelist may make its way onto HBO, with a little help from former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown.
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Location: In 2006, you went after the developer Aby Rosen’s plans for a glass tower at 980 Madison in The Times, writing that the Landmarks Preservation Commission would let him build whatever he wanted. They’ve since made him and his partners redraft and scale back plans. Are you glad you won? Mr. Wolfe: Well, that’s not over yet. They did try again, with what was in effect a plan for a tall glass...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Last night the New York magazine world literati turned out for a memorial celebration for Clay Felker , the legendary editor of New York who passed away over the summer. A red-socked Sir David Frost hosted the event, which was held at the New York Ethical Society and featured such Felker disciples as Tom Wolfe , Gloria Steinem , Leslie Stahl , and Richard Reeves . All the featured guests spoke to...
The Screenwriters League (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Noted author Tom Wolfe , on the state of fiction in an interview with Time Magazine : "There's so little of it now that it's pathetic, and it's pathetic all over. Writers come from master of fine arts programs now. If you add up the college education of Steinbeck, Hemingway and Faulkner, you get to spring break of freshman year." Harsh. Do you agree? [Via Jacket Copy ]
