Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Tom Wolfe.

In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is seen as a writer imitating no one and riding the crest of each latest wave in contemporary America.

These fifty-eight stories make up the most thorough collection of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date, spanning the breadth of the author's career, from the uninhibited young writer who penned "The Train and the City" to his mature, ...

Highlights the appearance by American writer Tom Wolfe (b. 1931) at the 1989 Celebrity Lecture Series at Michigan State University. Contains an audio file of the lecture and a selected bibliography.

McKeen's study reveals how Wolfe brought journalism, once the bastard child of literature, onto a higher plane, where it remains on a par with the novel - as an art form that is not merely the means toward an end but a satisfying end in ...

More comprehensive in scope than any preceding book on Wolfe, it offers accurate and accessible commentary based upon what Wolfe admits about his own work. In this new book, Wolfe's work is put in journalistic and literary context.

Offers an examination of the works of the American author.

A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

This is a story that no one else could tell. It tells how Thomas Wolfe and Robert Raynolds happened to meet, how they became friends, and how their friendship grew, survived a crisis, and continued until the death of Thomas Wolfe.

The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).