Tom Wolfe Wanted to Write Immortal Novels, Wrote Immortal Journalism Instead

THIS!!!!! (all caps) was how Tom Wolfe, as the legend Wolfe propagated has it, wrote his first magazine feature for Esquire in 1963, simply omitting the “Dear Byron” from the manuscript and printing the letter to his editor, Byron Dobell, he wrote in lieu of a proper piece, about a...More »