Ken Kesey's cross-country bus trip with the Merry Pranksters in 1964 was supposed to be a movie. ''The world's first acid film,'' as Tom Wolfe explained, ''taken under conditions of total spontaneity barreling through the heartlands of America, recording all now, in the moment.'' That's why the bus was packed not just with LSD, speed and grass, but...
Donald L. Cox, who was at the center of black radical politics as a member of the Black Panther Party high command and who earned a moment of celebrity in 1970 when he spoke at the Leonard Bernstein fund-raising party in Manhattan made notorious by the writer Tom Wolfe, died on Feb. 19 at his home in Camps-sur-l'Agly, France. He was 74. His wife,...
Tom Wolfe said Burton B. Roberts, the model for a cranky character in Mr. Wolfe's 1987 best-seller ''The Bonfire of the Vanities,'' ''had such a huge impact on my life, it's hard to know where to start.'' Facing the crowd at Judge Roberts's funeral on Tuesday, Mr. Wolfe paused, as if he were waiting for instructions. ''Burt's yelling,'' he said,...
Tom Wolfe (født 2. marts 1931 i Richmond, Virginia, USA) er en amerikansk forfatter og journalist.