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Tom Wolfe

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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. [1]

177 relations: A Man in Full, Academy of Achievement, African Americans, Agronomy, Alfred Russel Wallace, American Book Awards, American Society of Journalists and Authors, American studies, Archibald MacLeish, Astronaut, Émile Zola, Bachelor of Arts, Back to Blood, Bauhaus, Ben Yagoda, Bill Cunningham New York, Black Panther Party, Breakfast with Hunter, Brian De Palma, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film, Byron Dobell, Cadillac, Cannabis (drug), Capitol Hill, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Clay Felker, Creative nonfiction, Cuba, Culture of the Southern United States, Custom car, Doctor of Philosophy, Dos Passos Prize, Dwight Garner (critic), Eastern Washington University, Elisabeth Bumiller, English language, Episcopal Church (United States), Esquire (magazine), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Fiction-absolute, Firing Line (TV series), Forbes, Free association (psychology), From Bauhaus to Our House, Gay Talese, George W. Bush, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Gore Vidal, Great Awakening, ..., Harper's Magazine, History of the New York Giants (baseball), Homburg (hat), Hooking Up, Hot rod, Hunter S. Thompson, Hysterical realism, I Am Charlotte Simmons, In Our Time (Wolfe book), Insane Clown Poppy, James T. Farrell, Jann Wenner, Joan Didion, John Irving, John Steinbeck, John Updike, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Franzen, Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, Latin honors, Left-wing politics, Leonard Bernstein, List of narrative techniques, Literary Review, Little, Brown and Company, Longwood University, Lysergic acid diethylamide, Malcolm Cowley, Manhattan, Manhattanville College, Manufacturing Consent (film), Marshall Fishwick, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, Mercury Seven, Merry Pranksters, Michael Chabon, Michael Lewis, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Modern architecture, Modern art, Moe'N'a Lisa, National Book Award, National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Foundation, National Humanities Medal, National Review, National Sculpture Society, Neuroscience, New Journalism, New York (magazine), New York (state), New York City, New York Herald Tribune, New York Public Library, NewsGuild-CWA, Newsweek, Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, Onomatopoeia, Past tense, Paul Fussell, PBS, Phi Kappa Sigma, Philip Kaufman, Present tense, Princeton University, Radical chic, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, Randolph–Macon College, Richmond, Virginia, Rolling Stone, Saint Louis University, Salinger (film), San Francisco Chronicle, School of Visual Arts, Single combat, Social status, Southern California, Space Race, Spaceflight, Speed (TV network), Springfield, Massachusetts, St. Andrews University (North Carolina), St. Christopher's School (Richmond, Virginia), St. Louis Literary Award, Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast, Stony Brook Southampton, The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening, The Atlantic, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Bonfire of the Vanities (film), The Boston Globe, The Bronx, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Guardian, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Kingdom of Speech, The New Journalism, The New York Times, The Painted Word, The Pump House Gang, The Purple Decades, The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), The Right Stuff (book), The Right Stuff (film), The Simpsons, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TheGuardian.com, Time (magazine), Trophy wife, Truman Capote, Unique Whips, University of Richmond, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair (novel), Virginia Commonwealth University, Washington and Lee University, White House, Wikipedia, William F. Buckley Jr., William Makepeace Thackeray, Yale University, 1960s, 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike. Expand index (127 more) »

A Man in Full

A Man in Full is a novel by Tom Wolfe, published on November 12, 1998, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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Academy of Achievement

The Academy of Achievement, officially known as the American Academy of Achievement, was founded in 1961 by Sports Illustrated and LIFE magazine photographer Brian Reynolds to bring together accomplished people from diverse fields in order to network and to encourage the next generation of young leaders.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Agronomy

Agronomy (Ancient Greek ἀγρός agrós 'field' + νόμος nómos 'law') is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation.

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 18237 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.

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American Book Awards

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".

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American Society of Journalists and Authors

The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) was founded in 1948 as the Society of Magazine Writers, and is the professional association of independent nonfiction writers in the United States.

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American studies

American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American history, society, and culture.

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Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry.

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Back to Blood

Back to Blood is Tom Wolfe's fourth novel, published by Little, Brown.

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Bauhaus

Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught.

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Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda (born February 22, 1954) is an American writer and educator.

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Bill Cunningham New York

Bill Cunningham New York is a 2010 documentary film directed by Richard Press and produced by Philip Gefter.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.

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Breakfast with Hunter

Breakfast with Hunter (2003) is a documentary about the everyday life of gonzo-journalist Hunter S. Thompson by Wayne Ewing.

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Brian De Palma

Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film is a 2006 documentary about writer Hunter S. Thompson directed by Tom Thurman.

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Byron Dobell

Byron Dobell (May 30, 1927 – January 21, 2017) was an American editor and artist.

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Cadillac

Cadillac, formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a division of the U.S.-based General Motors (GM) that markets luxury vehicles worldwide.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Clay Felker

Clay Schuette Felker (October 2, 1925 – July 1, 2008) was an American magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968.

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Creative nonfiction

Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Culture of the Southern United States

The culture of the Southern United States, or Southern culture, is a subculture of the United States.

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Custom car

A custom car is a passenger vehicle that has been substantially altered to improve its performance, often by altering or replacing the engine and transmission; made into a personal "styling" statement, using paintjobs and aftermarket accessories to make the car look unlike any car as delivered from the factory; or some combination of performance modifying and appearance changes.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Dos Passos Prize

The John Dos Passos Prize is awarded annually to the best currently under-recognized American writer in the middle of their career.

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Dwight Garner (critic)

Dwight Garner (born 1965) is an American journalist, now a literary critic for The New York Times.

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Eastern Washington University

Eastern Washington University (EWU) is a regional, comprehensive public university located in Cheney, Washington, with programs offered at campuses in Cheney, EWU Spokane at the Riverpoint Campus and at multiple campus locations throughout the state.

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Elisabeth Bumiller

Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956) is an American author and journalist who is the Washington bureau chief for the New York Times.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Fiction-absolute

The concept of fiction-absolute exists firstly within the context of anthropology, secondly within the study of group psychology and tribalism.

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Firing Line (TV series)

Firing Line (in full, Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.) was an American public affairs show founded and hosted by conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Its 1,504 episodes, over 33 years, made Firing Line the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Free association (psychology)

Free association is a technique used in psychoanalysis (and also in psychodynamic theory) which was originally devised by Sigmund Freud out of the hypnotic method of his mentor and colleague, Josef Breuer.

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From Bauhaus to Our House

From Bauhaus to Our House is a 1981 narrative of Modern architecture, written by Tom Wolfe.

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Gay Talese

Gay Talese (born February 7, 1932) is an American writer.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

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Great Awakening

The Great Awakening refers to a number of periods of religious revival in American Christian history.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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History of the New York Giants (baseball)

The San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball originated in New York City as the New York Gothams in 1883 and were known as the New York Giants from 1885 until the team relocated to San Francisco after the season.

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Homburg (hat)

A homburg is a semi-formal hat of stiff felt, characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a grosgrain hatband, a stiff brim shaped in a "kettle curl", and a bound edge brim trim.

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Hooking Up

Hooking Up is a collection of essays and a novella by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were earlier published in popular magazines.

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Hot rod

Hot rods are typically old, classic American cars with large engines modified for linear speed.

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.

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Hysterical realism

Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.

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I Am Charlotte Simmons

I am Charlotte Simmons is a 2004 novel by Tom Wolfe, concerning sexual and status relationships at the fictional Dupont University.

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In Our Time (Wolfe book)

In Our Time is a book of essays and illustrations written and drawn by Tom Wolfe, published in 1980.

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Insane Clown Poppy

"Insane Clown Poppy" is the third episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons.

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James T. Farrell

James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 – August 22, 1979) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

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Jann Wenner

Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is the co-founder and publisher of the popular culture biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and former owner of Men's Journal magazine.

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American journalist and writer of novels, screenplays, and autobiographical works.

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John Irving

John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Ken Kesey

Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer.

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Latin honors

Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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List of narrative techniques

A narrative technique (also known more narrowly for literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want—in other words, a strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting.

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Literary Review

Literary Review is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors.

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Longwood University

Longwood University is a four-year public liberal arts university located in Farmville, Virginia, United States.

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Lysergic acid diethylamide

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects, which may include altered awareness of one's surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and images that seem real though they are not.

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Malcolm Cowley

Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Manhattanville College

Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in the village of Harrison near Purchase, New York, in suburban Westchester County, north of New York City.

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Manufacturing Consent (film)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is a 1992 documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of linguist, intellectual, and political activist Noam Chomsky.

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Marshall Fishwick

Marshall William Fishwick (July 5, 1923 – May 22, 2006) was an American multidisciplinary scholar, professor, writer, and editor who started the academic movement known as popular culture studies and established the journal International Popular Culture.

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Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine

Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is a 1976 book by Tom Wolfe, consisting of eleven essays and one short story that Wolfe wrote between 1967 and 1976.

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Mercury Seven

The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts announced by NASA on April 9, 1959.

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Merry Pranksters

The Merry Pranksters were cohorts and followers of American author Ken Kesey in 1964.

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Michael Lewis

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist.

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Minneapolis College of Art and Design

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is a private, nonprofit four-year and postgraduate college specializing in the visual arts.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to a group of styles of architecture which emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II.

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Modern art

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophy of the art produced during that era.

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Moe'N'a Lisa

"Moe'N'a Lisa" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Nonfiction

The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by U.S. citizens.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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National Humanities Medal

The National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals, groups, or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to important resources in the humanities." The annual Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities was established in 1988 and succeeded by the National Humanities Medal in 1997.

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National Review

National Review (NR) is an American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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National Sculpture Society

Founded in 1893, the National Sculpture Society (NSS) was the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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New Journalism

New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, which uses literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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NewsGuild-CWA

The NewsGuild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist.

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

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Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Past tense

The past tense (abbreviated) is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to place an action or situation in past time.

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Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell, Jr. (22 March 1924 – 23 May 2012) was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Phi Kappa Sigma

Phi Kappa Sigma (ΦΚΣ) is an international all-male college secret and social fraternity.

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Philip Kaufman

Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than five decades.

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Present tense

The present tense (abbreviated or) is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in present time.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Radical chic

"Radical chic" is a term coined by journalist Tom Wolfe in his 1970 essay "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's" to describe the adoption and promotion of radical political causes by celebrities, socialites, and high society.

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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe.

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Randolph–Macon College

Randolph–Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, United States, near the capital city of Richmond.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Roman Catholic four-year research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States and Madrid, Spain.

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Salinger (film)

Salinger is a 2013 documentary film about the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger directed and produced by Shane Salerno.

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) is a for-profit art and design college located in Manhattan, New York, founded in 1947.

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Single combat

Single combat is a duel between two single warriors which takes place in the context of a battle between two armies.

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Social status

Social status is the relative respect, competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Space Race

The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability.

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Spaceflight

Spaceflight (also written space flight) is ballistic flight into or through outer space.

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Speed (TV network)

Speed is a defunct sports-oriented cable and satellite television network that was owned by the Fox Sports Media Group division of 21st Century Fox.

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is a city in western New England, and the historical seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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St. Andrews University (North Carolina)

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St. Christopher's School (Richmond, Virginia)

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St. Louis Literary Award

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Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast

"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" is an essay by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the November 1989 issue of Harper's Magazine criticizing the American literary establishment for retreating from realism.

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Stony Brook Southampton

Stony Brook Southampton is a campus location of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, located in Southampton, New York between the Shinnecock Indian Reservation and Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on the eastern end of Long Island.

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The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening

"The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coined the phrase Me' Decade", a term that became common as a descriptor for the decade of the 1970s.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe.

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)

The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian De Palma.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe that was published in 1968.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the title of Tom Wolfe's first collected book of essays, published in 1965.

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The Kingdom of Speech

The Kingdom of Speech is a critique of Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky written by Tom Wolfe.

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The New Journalism

The New Journalism is a 1973 anthology of journalism edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Painted Word

The Painted Word is a 1975 book of art criticism by Tom Wolfe.

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The Pump House Gang

The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and journalism by Tom Wolfe.

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The Purple Decades

The Purple Decades: A Reader is a collection of the non-fiction writing of Tom Wolfe, published in 1982.

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The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)

The Republican is a newspaper based in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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The Right Stuff (book)

The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space program.

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The Right Stuff (film)

The Right Stuff is a 1983 American epic historical drama film.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Trophy wife

Trophy wife is an informal term for a wife, usually young and attractive, who is regarded as a status symbol for the husband, who is often older or unattractive, but usually wealthy.

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Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capotehttp://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547#early-life (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

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Unique Whips

Unique Whips was a television show that aired on the defunct Speed Channel from 2005–2008.

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University of Richmond

The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college located in the city of Richmond, Virginia, with small portions of the campus extending into surrounding Henrico County.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Vanity Fair (novel)

Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a public research university located in Richmond, Virginia.

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Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee or W&L) is a private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, United States.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia that is based on a model of openly editable content.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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1960s

The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 1960, and ended on 31 December 1969.

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1962–63 New York City newspaper strike

The 1962–63 New York City Newspaper Strike ran from December 8, 1962, until March 31, 1963, lasting for a total of 114 days.

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