![]() ![]() He admitted he liked the attention they brought him. Wolfe's trademark was the white suit, often accessorised with a white hat and two-tone shoes. John Irving angrily denounced Wolfe by saying, "I can't read him because he's such a bad writer." That kindled rivalries with contemporaries Norman Mailer and John Updike, who Wolfe referred to as "two old piles of bones". Wolfe complained that novelists did not bring enough reality to their books, and while bemoaning the state of American literature, offered himself as an exemplar of what it should be. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that Wolfe's "wry wit and sharp observations defined an era of life in New York". "He is irritating, but he did develop a new journalistic idiom that has brought relief from standard Middle-High Journalese." "The question is not only whether Tom Wolfe can be taken seriously, but whether he can be taken at all," a Time magazine critic wrote in 1968. ![]()
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