Radical Wolfe, an upcoming documentary about my late father, the author Tom Wolfe, covers Dad’s upbringing in Richmond, Virginia, his pioneering New Journalism, his second act as a best-selling novelist, and, not least, his many literary feuds.
Dad, a soft-spoken, polite Southern gentleman, was the least argumentative or confrontational person I knew. But he delighted in defending his style of writing and reportage and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers, or even, in the case of his article “Tiny Mummies!,” which ridiculed William Shawn’s New Yorker, an entire magazine.
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