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Summary: The Write Stuff
Review: This tape is an interview with Tom Wolfe that was recorded at the Smithsonian. The interview lasts about an hour and Wolfe talks about his life, how he became a journalist, how he became a novelist and his philosopy of the novel. The interview is much too short. Wolfe could probably talk on any one of those four things for an hour at a time. Many times on this tape the interviewer is getting to the "meat" of the issue - and then he changes the subject! The best part of the tape is Wolfe's ideas on the state of writing. Too many novelists' today belong to what Wolfe calls the "Thumbsucking" school of writing - only concerned with what is immediately surrounding them and unwilling to go out and engage the world. Wolfe sums it up nicely as thus: "Emerson said that 'every person has a great autobiography to write'. The problem is he didn't say 'every person has TWO great autobiographies' to write"! The box says this is "Volume Two" of some kind of some kind of lecture series. Somewhat odd as Volume One and Volume Three don't seem to exist!
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