New Releases by Tom Wolfe

Reissued for today’s reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast, In Our Time exemplifies Tom Wolfe’s writing on 1970s America. In Our Time is a biting collection of Tom Wolfe’s essays and illustrations cataloging and critiquing the state of 1970s American society. In this slim but unsparing collection of razor-sharp observations and mordant caricatures, Wolfe reaffirms his role as the great chronicler, debunker, and exuberant plain speaker of American letters. Wolfe’s joyriding satirical tour through the emerging American archetypes of the 1970s is an essential portrait of the delirious, madding decade.

A sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist When Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he transformed reporting in American popular culture. For his next project, Wolfe traveled from La Jolla to London in search of new lifestyles. The result is The Pump House Gang (published simultaneously with The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in 1968): a collection of essays that chronicles life at the end of the 1960s, written with all the panache and perceptiveness that made Wolfe one of our greatest American journalists. Running throughout The Pump House Gang is a central theme of Wolfe’s writing: status. In pieces about Hugh Hefner, Natalie Wood, and a gang of affluent teenage surfers, among others, Wolfe discusses the 1960s phenomenon of retreating from conventional social hierarchies, which he calls “starting your own league.” Dancers, motorcyclists, lumpen-dandies, and stay-at-homes—everybody’s doing it. Except for die-hards in the crumbling old social worlds of New York and London, where the confusion is so great that nobody can tell whether this is really the path to the top they’ve taken or just the service elevator. Dazzlingly brilliant as a stylist, daringly provocative as a commentator, and always entertaining, in The Pump House Gang, Wolfe is thoroughly, completely himself.

En moderne amerikansk klassiker og den ultimative New Yorker- roman Forfængelighedens bål er en skånselsløs satire over den amerikanske skinverden, som medierne og magthaverne i fællesskab har skabt. Baggrunden er New York i 1980''erne, og hovedpersonen er en ung børsmægler, der tilfældigt bliver offer for systemet. Tom Wolfe ( 1931-2018) var amerikansk journalist og forfatter med et stort forfatterskab bag sig. Med sin stil, der lånte fra både litteratur og livsstilsjournalistik, var han med til at introducere skrivegenren new journalism.

Tom Wolfe, feroz y sagaz polemista, arremete contra las verdades absolutas del evolucionismo aplicado a la lingüística en su testamento literario. Además de un gran periodista y narrador, Tom Wolfe fue siempre un polemista fervoroso, vibrante e implacable, tal como demostró en sus diatribas contra ciertos mitos intocables del arte y la arquitectura modernos. Después de dieciséis años, el autor regresaba al ensayo con este El reino del lenguaje, que se ha convertido en su testamento literario: un texto donde clava su penetrante mirada y afilados colmillos nada menos que en la teoría de la evolución aplicada a la lingüística, cuestiona supuestas verdades absolutas y apunta contra un par de vacas sagradas separadas por un siglo. Por un lado Charles Darwin y por el otro Noam Chomsky en su faceta de lingüista, a cada uno de los cuales contrapone con su respectivo antagonista, despreciado o cuestionado por el mundo académico: el naturalista Alfred Russel Wallace, sobre cuyo destino Darwin siempre tuvo remordimientos y mala conciencia, y el antropólogo Daniel Everett, que ha pasado años conviviendo con la tribu amazónica de los pirahã y cuya teoría sobre el origen y evolución del lenguaje humano cuestiona la de Chomsky. En este libro agudo y retador, Wolfe se enfrenta a la ortodoxia y plantea estimulantes preguntas: ¿viene el lenguaje humano del canto de los pájaros? ¿Es un don innato o una herramienta adquirida? ¿Es el lenguaje lo que explica la evolución humana?

No princípio era o Verbo. Era mesmo? Antes de tornar-se um romancista campeão de vendagem, Tom Wolfe foi um jornalista desbravador. Agora, o magistral contador de histórias dirige sua atenção ao mistério por trás da criação de sua ferramenta mais importante: a linguagem. Em O reino da fala, Wolfe tenta alterar paradigmas com um polêmico argumento: o de que a fala, e não a evolução, é a responsável pelas complexas sociedades e conquistas da humanidade. Começando no século XIX com Alfred Wallace, o inglês autodidata que formulou antes de Charles Darwin a teoria da seleção natural, mas que depois renunciou a ela por sua incapacidade de explicar a fala humana, e chegando aos neodarwinistas, que durante anos argumentaram que existe um "órgão da linguagem" no cérebro humano, Wolfe examina os repetidos esforços e fracassos da ciência na tentativa de explicar o dom da fala. Na atualidade, Wolfe aborda a obra controversa de outro outsider, o linguista Daniel Everett. Após estudar por trinta anos a tribo pirahã no interior da Amazônia, Everett revelou um povo cujo nível pré-histórico de fala levara a uma sociedade sem religião, cerimônias, hierarquias, casamento ou ornamentos, e sem a capacidade de planejar o futuro ou considerar um passado, apenas o presente, desafiando, assim, a visão convencional de que a linguagem já vem programada nos seres humanos. Com espirituosidade mordaz e humor cáustico, Wolfe revela os zigue-zagues secretos, solenes, sérios e cômicos da história de como a evolução, de Charles Darwin a Noam Chomsky, é falha na explicação das origens da linguagem, além de mostrar a importância eterna dos outsiders corajosos na derrubada de nossas arraigadas ideias acerca de nós mesmos. Polêmico e vigoroso, este mais recente tour de force épico de Wolfe vai dar o que falar.

These stories highlight the inventors, racers, and show-winners from both past and present who have made hot rodding the art it is today! Hot rods are built for speed and each is a unique creation reflecting its builder''s vision. The Hot Rod Reader offers similar features with writings and excerpts that capture the excitement of hot rodding, the history of how it came to be, and the major events, people, cars, and builders who have brought hot rods to national attention. The anthology includes diverse contributions from popular writers covering hot rods and custom cars--writers like Tom Wolfe, Jay Leno, Peter Vincent, and more. Also included are stories about the most daring, cutting-edge innovators in the hot rodding field today. The entire collection works like a field guide, helping readers to explore various themes within hot rodding through news articles, essays, fiction, interviews, and more, with more than 60 color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs to illuminate each excerpt and story. Dig deeper into a hobby that''s all about tinkering with machines to make them go faster, look cooler, function better, and exceed expectations. Motivated by both craftsmanship and performance, hot rodders encourage us to push the limits of both mechanical objects and social acceptance, and in the process, they have redefined the driving experience. Read the full story of the hot rod with The Hot Rod Reader.

Edward T. Topping IV, blanco, anglo y sajón, va con Mack, su mujer, a un restaurante. Y mientras espera para aparcar su ecológico coche –como toca a personas progresistas y cultivadas–, un esplendoroso Ferrari, conducido por una latina no menos esplendorosa, les birla el lugar y la conductora se burla de Mack. Quizá porque, como afirma Wolfe, Miami es la única ciudad de América donde una población venida de otro país se ha hecho dueña del territorio en sólo una generación. Y por eso Ed Topping ha sido enviado a Miami a reconvertir el Miami Herald en un periódico digital y lanzar El Nuevo Herald para las masas latinas. Y en esa Miami y en ese diario viven y trabajan dos personajes fundamentales de esta inmensa, divertida novela: John Smith, un periodista que persigue la exclusiva que hará que deje de ser desconocido, y Nestor Camacho, policía cubano-americano que será el protagonista de la exclusiva de John. Pero hay mucho más: está Magdalena, novia o algo parecido de Nestor, y su amante, un psiquiatra que se aprovecha de uno de sus pacientes, un poderoso millonario que se masturba con tal intensidad que tiene el pene casi deshecho, para circular entre la más selecta sociedad de Miami. Y hay mafiosos rusos, un alcalde latino y un jefe de policía negro. Y las fiestas donde se congregan todos los que hacen que el mundo y Miami giren en la vida y en esta novela, tan torrencial como esperpéntica... «Cautivarnos, divertirnos, asombrarnos. Todo eso logra Tom Wolfe con Bloody Miami, en la que vuelve a hacer lo que mejor sabe: practicar el arte del exceso... ¡Qué energía, Dios mío! ¡Qué locura! Cinco estrellas, sin duda» (Andrés Ibáñez, ABC). «Tom Wolfe en estado puro. Una lengua absolutamente afilada, un dominio del sarcasmo y una galería de personajes impresionante» (Benjamín Prado).

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and "delicious" (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism The phrase ''radical chic'' was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt. Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program''s money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.

"An excellent book by a genius," said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism. "This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now, when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--Newsweek In his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) Wolfe introduces us to the sixties, to extravagant new styles of life that had nothing to do with the "elite" culture of the past.

"America''s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe''s style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).

One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe''s The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism. This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to hundreds of like-minded folks, staging impromptu jam sessions, dodging the Feds, and meeting some of the most revolutionary figures of the day. "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the psychedelic 1960s.

Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series. From "America''s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. " Millions of words have poured forth about man''s trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

At Dupont University, an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellect alone will not help her survive.

Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe''s first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe''s novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author''s reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • “A masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal) of a novel by the era-defining author of The Bonfire of the Vanities—now a Netflix original limited series from David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) starring Jeff Daniels, Lucy Liu, and Diane Lane “Wolfe is a peerless observer, a fearless satirist, a genius in full.”—People The setting is Atlanta, Georgia—a racially mixed, late-twentieth-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt. Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland, California, and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system. And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek “the Canon” Fanon, a homegrown product of the city’s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city’s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates—Wolfe shows us contemporary turn-of-the-century America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him one of our most admired talked-about novelists.

In this novel, set in present-day Atlanta, Wolfe reveals the disparate worlds of contemporary America as he chronicles the story of an event that shatters the city''s delicate racial balance.

"Printed here in its entirety is Ambush at Fort Bragg, a novella about sting TV which has prefigured with eerie accuracy three cases of scandal and betrayal that have lately exploded in the press, as well as Wolfe''s forecasts ("My Three Stooges," "The Invisible Artist") of radical changes about to sweep the arts.".

A popular book on Arthritis. How to understand this illness and useful advices on diets and healthy habits. Basen on the author'' s own experience.

" L''audace de Tom Wolfe ? Faire entrer la totalité de la société américaine contemporaine dans une seule et unique œuvre d''art, formidable et tentaculaire ". The New York Times. " Un roman imposant, d''une ambition spectaculaire, superbement observé, et d''une drôlerie impitoyable ". Entertaimnent Weekly. " Des dialogues tranchants. Une mise en scène ébouriffante... Un chef-d''œuvre... ". The Wall Street Journal. " Un homme, un vrai rappelle l''œuvre de Dickens et des autres grands écrivains de l''ère victorienne, par la façon qu''il a d''embrasser tout l''éventail de la société humaine. Voici l''œuvre d''un journaliste hardi, aux facultés de perception aiguës, d''un homme qui croit que la fiction doit engager le monde, et qui y parvient avec une puissance narrative tout à fait singulière ". The Washington Post.

This glorious tribute to a contemporary master of humanist art covers his Vietnam Veterans Memorial Three Soldiers, National Cathedral Creation doors, and acrylic works.

En toile de fond : la guerre froide que se livrent les Américains et les Russes. L''enjeu : rien moins que les étoiles. Le projet : Mercury. Les héros : sept astronautes à la conquête du ciel, courageux, pleins d''expérience, prêts à payer. de leur peau pour goûter à la gloire. Héroïque, Chuck Yeager qui a franchi le premier le mur du son. Héroïque, John Glenn qui effectue le premier vol orbital jamais réalisé par un Américain. Héroïque, Gus Grissom qui réussit sa difficile mission... mais voilà qu''il saute à la mer, pris de panique ! Ils ont peur, ces héros ? Et leurs femmes pleurent ?.. Ça, des as ? Ou " des fils de p..., des salopards ", comme le prétend Pancho Bannes, la patronne du bar, thêàtre de scènes d''un grand comique. Ou des singes, puis-qu''ils subissent les mêmes tests que les animaux de laboratoire et qu''on leur dit sans cesse que le premier à effectuer le projet Mercury sera... un chimpanzé. Ou des pantins entre les mains des médias américains. Un peu de tout cela, donc des hommes, écrit en substance Tom Wolfe. Et leur " Etoffe " est humaine, tout simplement.

This collection of Wolfe''s essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

The strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both comedy and intellectual excitement as Wolfe debunks the Euro gods of modern and postmodern architecture and their American counterparts.

"When are the 1970''s going to begin?" ran the joke during the l976 presidential bid. In these stories and essays Wolfe meets the question head-on -- even providing the label "The Me Decade". Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.