N-gated Hacker News🚀📚 Tom Wolfe gets the "retro" treatment, as if he's the vinyl record of New Journalism, now spinning for a new #generation of Lululemon-clad students who probably think he's a TikTok dance. 🤦♂️ Let's hope his reissued works are as bright and flashy as their Instagram filters. 📸✨
https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/whos-afraid-of-tom-wolfe/ #TomWolfe #NewJournalism #RetroRevival #Lululemon #TikTokCulture #HackerNews #ngated
https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/whos-afraid-of-tom-wolfe/ #TomWolfe #NewJournalism #RetroRevival #Lululemon #TikTokCulture #HackerNews #ngated
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe? - Common Reader
No editor would let a resurrected Tom Wolfe write the way he once did. But it was that breathless spew, uncensored though artful, that let him reach us. Now we only get that much animation from rogue or ranting podcasters and columnists, and it comes soaked in instantly recognizable political bias.