![]() ![]() ![]() A question arose in him: how the hell did Tom Wolfe do it? Lewis was an avid reader but this was the first time he’d had the sense of a real living writer finding and telling the intimate stories behind all those words on the page. When he opened the book and started reading, however, he was entranced by Wolfe’s scathing and hilarious observation of New York’s leftwing elites. Lewis was 12 years old, and of the words in that book’s title, he understood only “the”. In the story Lewis recalled how his admiration began when he pulled down a copy of Wolfe’s book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers from his father’s bookshelves at home in New Orleans in 1972. ![]() L ate last year, the American journalist Michael Lewis wrote a long story for Vanity Fair about his first and abiding literary hero, Tom Wolfe. ![]()
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