mr. wolfe
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posted by catherine / November 30, 2004 / 
my coworker just came in with a report that he had met tom wolfe in the elevator. wearing a white suit, natch. what the fuck tom wolfe is doing in the elevator at the center for national higher education is beyond me - but, still, cool! i know he's in town today for a reading at the olsson's on 7th street. reviews for i am charlotte simmons have been, as far as i can tell, mixed. here's a slate book club exchange between two uva professors about the book. i don't know why they picked uva professors - we all know wolfe was portraying duke in the book.
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Do you think it was Duke? It seemed that way, to a degree (a deified basketball coach, the green in the middle of campus, etc.) but sometimes it seemed like a mix between Stanford and Duke, with some northeastern schools (Penn State?) thrown in. And there wasn't that much southern-ness in the book; everyone reacted to Charlotte's (and later, another characters) accent like she was from another planet.
In any case, B minus on the book as a whole.
oh, i'm just bullshitting. i haven't read the book yet, so i wouldn't even know. but i read a couple of accounts that suggested that wolfe was aping duke (and his daughter went/goes there, i think? so he might have had a lot of experience with it). regardless, duke sux! go wahoos.
Huh. Wolfe's on NPR right now. It all sounds sort of gross.
I'm listening, too, Kriston. I just heard him say, "I tried to immerse Charlotte in the latest theories of neuroscience, because ultimately they are very depressing"
I'm starting to like this guy
tom wolfe's daughter did go to duke and graduated in 2002. and that seems to be the only reason he spoke at convocation that year, and his speech was trite and full of cliches! through the fog of massive hangovers, our delayed response was outrage and contempt! or was it apathy? i can't remember anymore.
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