Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, in podcasts, and in books.
Today is a story of March 2nd
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It is the 61st day of the year, leaving 304 days remaining in 2023.
He told his stories in fiction and non-fiction, and sometimes a combination of both. He was a proponent of New Journalism, who sought to involve himself into his non-fiction. He chronicled the hippies, yippies and Merry Pranksters in the 1960s in books with titles such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, then turned himself into a serious novelist to critique the emergence of yuppie culture in the 1980s.
He was a newspaperman and magazine writer, and wrote about the first astronauts in The Right Stuff.
After obtaining a doctorate in American studies from Yale, Wolfe wrote for newspapers. including The Washington Post and the old New York Herald Tribune. He also wrote for magazines such as Esquire, for which he penned an unusual feature article on the car culture of California. Written in the New Journalism style of using literary techniques in his writing, the story was a hit, and later became the focus -- and title -- of a collection of stories in his first book -- The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
He wrote his first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, in the old style -- a take on Dickens and other early novelists who published their work in installments, on deadline, as they wrote each chapter. Wolfe's work -- about class, racism, and greed in New York City -- was first published in Rolling Stone starting in 1984. Wolfe then heavily re-wrote it, and published it as a novel in 1987.
He wrote three additional novels on contemporary American culture, which received praise for their insight and criticism for their pretentiousness.
Wolfe died in 2018.
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