{"id":4677,"date":"2006-03-12T21:26:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T21:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:45:28","slug":"interview_with_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4677","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Tom Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal had an excellent interview\/article on Tom Wolfe yesterday. They posted it on their opinionjournal.com site, so it is available for free. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/editorial\/feature.html?id=110008076\">OpinionJournal &#8211; Featured Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only read two of Wolfe&#8217;s books &#8211; <strong>The Right Stuff<\/strong> and <strong>Bonfire of the Vanities.<\/strong> I don&#8217;t read many novels, but <strong>Bonfire<\/strong> is my all-time favorite. Did Wolfe ever capture NY in the 80&#8217;s (Remember &quot;lemon tarts&quot; and &quot;social x-rays&quot;?). Even my father read and liked it. <\/p>\n<p>But, it sounds like Wolfe ain&#8217;t too popular in New York social circles. Read the Journal piece, it&#8217;s fascinating.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal had an excellent interview\/article on Tom Wolfe yesterday. They posted it on their opinionjournal.com site, so it is available for free. OpinionJournal &#8211; Featured Article I&#8217;ve only read two of Wolfe&#8217;s books &#8211; The Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities. I don&#8217;t read many novels, but Bonfire is my all-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9779,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/9779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}