# Question about a different novelist named Wolfe *The Urth list — 10 messages, 6 voices, 24 Jan 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Christopher Culver *24 Jan 2003, 14:40* On the bookshelves (at least when some of his books are misshelved in the Fiction section), Gene Wolfe sits by the early 20th-century writer Thomas Wolfe. Has anyone read any of Thomas Wolfe's work? Would you recommend it? I've always been intrigued for some reason by Thomas Wolfe's intimidatingly large books, and wonder what sort of experience reading him is. Christopher Culver --- ### James Jordan *24 Jan 2003, 15:13 · follows Christopher Culver* Now there's a thought. Given all the wolves in Wolfe's writings, and his spins on Nero Wolfe, it seems likely that Gene has read the writings of other Wolfes. Perhaps there are lots of spins on Thomas Wolfe's books in Gene's. I've not read the latter, but maybe someone here has. Nutria > At 08:40 AM 1/24/2003, you wrote: > On the bookshelves (at least when some of his books are misshelved in the > Fiction section), Gene Wolfe sits by the early 20th-century writer Thomas > Wolfe. Has anyone read any of Thomas Wolfe's work? Would you recommend it? > I've always been intrigued for some reason by Thomas Wolfe's > intimidatingly large books, and wonder what sort of experience reading him is. > > Christopher Culver > > -- --- ### Thomas Bitterman *24 Jan 2003, 16:22 · follows James Jordan* > Christopher Culver wrote: > On the bookshelves (at least when some of his books are misshelved in > the Fiction section), Gene Wolfe sits by the early 20th-century writer > Thomas Wolfe. Has anyone read any of Thomas Wolfe's work? Would you > recommend it? I've always been intrigued for some reason by Thomas > Wolfe's intimidatingly large books, and wonder what sort of experience > reading him is. I've read (very little) Tom Wolfe: _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_, _Bonfire of the Vanities_, _From Bauhuas to Our House_, and _The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby_. Based on that he's an easy read, good style, interesting topics. He started in journalism and his subjects tend to be contemporary people in interesting or extraordinary situations. In some ways he's almost the opposite of Gene Wolfe. Gene writes very dense, difficult, rather pessimistic stories about times and places far away where everything is strange and decayed. Thomas writes brighter stories in contemporary settings where people cope pretty well. He'll probably be remembered as one of the best American novelists of the 20th century. > Christopher Culver - tom __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ --- ### James Jordan *24 Jan 2003, 16:29 · follows Thomas Bitterman* Now there's yet another one: Tom Wolfe. You know, thinking about it, the madhouse scene in *Free Live Free* might be inspired by Tom Wolfe. It's like the kinds of things he writes about. Nutria > At 10:22 AM 1/24/2003, you wrote: > Christopher Culver wrote: >> On the bookshelves (at least when some of his books are misshelved in >> the Fiction section), Gene Wolfe sits by the early 20th-century writer >> Thomas Wolfe. Has anyone read any of Thomas Wolfe's work? Would you >> recommend it? I've always been intrigued for some reason by Thomas >> Wolfe's intimidatingly large books, and wonder what sort of experience >> reading him is. > I've read (very little) Tom Wolfe: _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_, > _Bonfire of the Vanities_, _From Bauhuas to Our House_, and _The > Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby_. Based on that > he's an easy read, good style, interesting topics. He started in > journalism and his subjects tend to be contemporary people in > interesting or extraordinary situations. > > In some ways he's almost the opposite of Gene Wolfe. Gene writes > very dense, difficult, rather pessimistic stories about times > and places far away where everything is strange and decayed. > Thomas writes brighter stories in contemporary settings where > people cope pretty well. He'll probably be remembered as one > of the best American novelists of the 20th century. >> Christopher Culver >> - tom > __________________________________________________________________ > The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! > http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at > http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > -- --- ### Dan Schmidt *24 Jan 2003, 16:36 · follows James Jordan* thomasbitterman at netscape.net (Thomas Bitterman) writes: | Christopher Culver wrote: | | >On the bookshelves (at least when some of his books are misshelved in | >the Fiction section), Gene Wolfe sits by the early 20th-century writer | >Thomas Wolfe. Has anyone read any of Thomas Wolfe's work? Would you | >recommend it? I've always been intrigued for some reason by Thomas | >Wolfe's intimidatingly large books, and wonder what sort of experience | >reading him is. | | I've read (very little) Tom Wolfe: _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid | Test_, _Bonfire of the Vanities_, _From Bauhuas to Our House_, and | _The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby_. Based on that | he's an easy read, good style, interesting topics. He started in | journalism and his subjects tend to be contemporary people in | interesting or extraordinary situations. Tom Wolfe is a different guy. Thomas Wolfe is the one who wrote _Look Homeward, Angel_. Dan ``` http://www.dfan.org -- ``` --- ### Thomas Bitterman *24 Jan 2003, 16:50 · follows Dan Schmidt* > Dan Schmidt wrote: > > Tom Wolfe is a different guy. Thomas Wolfe is the one who wrote > _Look Homeward, Angel_. darn. > Dan - tom __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *24 Jan 2003, 16:56 · follows Thomas Bitterman* > Tom Wolfe is a different guy. Thomas Wolfe is the one who > wrote _Look Homeward, Angel_. Not to mention _Time and the River_, _A Man in Full_, and _You Can't Go Home Again_. But while we're at it let's not forget ... Gary K. Wolfe (SF critic) L.E. Wolfe (author of the "Jack B. Quick - Sports Detective" books) Bernard Wolfe (author of the mainstream-sf novel "Limbo," as well as "Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer" and "Trotsky Dead") Elle Wolfe (author of the "Palm Beach Prep" series) and, lacking the "e" but seeming worth mention Gary K. Wolf (author of the original "Who Cencored Roger Rabbit?") ... not to mention a host of other Wolfess too pointless to mention ... --- ### Andrew Bollen *24 Jan 2003, 17:05 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* Can we include Virginia Wolfe? ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" > To: > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:56 AM > Subject: RE: (urth) Question about a different novelist named Wolfe > Tom Wolfe is a different guy. Thomas Wolfe is the one who > wrote _Look Homeward, Angel_. Not to mention _Time and the River_, _A Man in Full_, and _You Can't Go Home Again_. But while we're at it let's not forget ... Gary K. Wolfe (SF critic) L.E. Wolfe (author of the "Jack B. Quick - Sports Detective" books) Bernard Wolfe (author of the mainstream-sf novel "Limbo," as well as "Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer" and "Trotsky Dead") Elle Wolfe (author of the "Palm Beach Prep" series) and, lacking the "e" but seeming worth mention Gary K. Wolf (author of the original "Who Cencored Roger Rabbit?") ... not to mention a host of other Wolfess too pointless to mention ... --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *24 Jan 2003, 17:07 · follows Andrew Bollen* > Can we include Virginia Wolfe? Don't see why not ... I was trying to keep my list Merkin. --- ### Dan Schmidt *27 Jan 2003, 17:14 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" writes: | > Tom Wolfe is a different guy. Thomas Wolfe is the one who | > wrote _Look Homeward, Angel_. | | Not to mention _Time and the River_, _A Man in Full_, and | _You Can't Go Home Again_. _A Man in Full_ is Tom again. That is my last pedantic correction, I promise... Dan ``` http://www.dfan.org -- ``` ---