Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...attracted to those easily pleased, over-eager twits, but we can't forgive it. Why is she always younger than us--either the nave first-year or girl back home? We, the wise and cynical ones, know it can't last, but we wish it were a vast right-wing conspiracy instead of a squalid weakness of the flesh...
...mean we're going to take the back seat anymore. No no. We're ready to let him cling to our coattails for a change. After all, we're getting better grades, winning awards, making our mark in the world. We've been biding our time, waiting for the right moment to make our grand entrance...
...hard to argue with such a forceful recommendation. Wolfe has been in the spotlight since his early days as a reporter. He's coined popular phrases such as "the right stuff" and "good ol' boy," and written an enormous amount of insightful and controversial material covering everything from American architecture to rocket pilots. His last big production, the 1998 A Man In Full, landed him on the cover of Time magazine in his trademark dandy white suit. There was an 11-year wait between Wolfe's last two books, but two short years later he's back again with Hooking...
...read novels anymore-would-be readers would rather watch movies. Wolfe sees the same problem, and proposes a solution: "The American novel is dying, not of obsolescence, but of anorexia. It needs...food. It needs novelists with huge appetites and mighty, unslaked thirsts for...America...as she is right now. It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America the way her moviemakers do, which is to say, with a ravenous curiosity and an urge to go out among her 270 million souls and talk to them and look them in the eye." America needs novelists like...
...implications of neurobiology and ("Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died") the fallacies of American intellectuals ("In the Land of the Rococo Marxists") and the rise of Silicon Valley ("Two Young Men Who Went West"). A sample of Wolfe's short fiction, the novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg," appears right after the "My Three Stooges" chapter, as if to say, judge my fiction for yourself, you skeptics! For some reason, Wolfe's famous (or not-so-famous, depending on your generation) parody of The New Yorker and its editor William Shawn, published in the New York Herald Tribune in 1965 finish...