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MONOGRAPHS

The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York: Bantam Books, 1968.

From Bauhaus to Our House, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

Hooking Up, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

I Am Charlotte Simmons, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

In Our Time, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.

A Man in Full: A Novel, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine, and Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

The New Journalism [ed. anthology with E. W. Johnson], New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

The Painted Word, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

The Pump House Gang, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.

The Purple Decades: A Reader, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.

Radical and Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.

The Right Stuff, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.


SELECTED ARTICLES AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

"Columbus and the Moon." In Popular Writing in America: The Interaction of Style and Audience, D. McQuade and R. Atwan, eds., New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

"Commentary." In Frederick Hart, Sculptor, Marshall Lee, ed., New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1994.

"Essay." In Marie Cosindas, Color Photographs, Susan Feldman, ed., Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.

"Foreword." In Probing Popular Culture On and Off the Internet, by M. W. Fishwick, New York: Haworth Press, 2004.

"Introduction." In The Secret Life of Our Times: New Fiction from Esquire, Gordon Lish, ed., Garden City: Doubleday, 1973.

"Introduction." In Simplicissimus: The Art of Germany's Most Influential Satire Magazine (1896-1944), Steve Heller, ed., New York: Die Aktion Productions, 1979.

"Porno-violence." In Crisis: A Contemporary Reader, Peter Collier, ed., New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969.


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES ON TOM WOLFE

Aikman, David. "Wolfe Among the Pigeons: A New 'Literary Manifesto' Ruffles Some Feathers: Writer Tom Wolfe Lambastes Current U.S. Novelists," in Time, November 27, 1989.

Angelo, Bonnie. "Master of His Universe: Tom Wolfe, Novelists and Journalist," in Time, February 13, 1989.

Card, James. "Tom Wolf and the 'Experimental' Novel," in Journal of American Culture, Volume 14.3, Fall 1991.

Cooper, Rand R. "Tom Wolfe, Material Boy," in Commonweal, May 7, 1999.

Croghan, Lore. "Tom Wolfe, Angry Preservationists Confront New York Landmarks Commission," in The Daily News, October 20, 2004.

Derbyshire, John. "Our Crisis of Foundations: What Tom Wolfe's Novel, Among Other Things, Brings to Mind," in National Review, December 13, 2004.

Dyer, Geoff. "Books: Painting to the Strains of Tom Wolfe," in The Sunday Telegraph, March 22, 1998.

Epstein Joseph. "Tom Wolfe's Vanities," in The New Criterion, Volume 6.6, February 1988.

Eyman, Scott. "A Conversation with Tom Wolfe," in The Palm Beach Post, March 27, 2005.

Glendon, Mary A. "Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?," in First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 1, 1999.

Gross, John. "God's Own Country: John Gross Admires Tom Wolfe's Defence of His Native Land," in The Sunday Telegraph, November 12, 2000.

Konas, Gary. "Traveling 'Further' with Tom Wolfe's Heroes," in Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 28.3, 1994.

Lehman, Daniel. "'Split Flee Hide Vanish Disintegrate': Tom Wolfe and the Arrest of New Journalism," in Prospects, Volume 21, 1996.

Masters, Joshua. "Race and the Infernal City in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities," in Journal of Narrative Theory, Volume 29.2, Spring 1999.

McKeen, William. Tom Wolfe, New York: Twayne, 1995.

O'Briant, Don. "Tom Wolfe Speaks: 'Atlanta is . . . the City of the Future,'" in The Atlanta Constitution, November 11, 1998.

Pate, Nancy. "The Right Stuff: 30 Years Ago Tom Wolfe Put a Name to the Nature of Space Travel Heroism That Has Become Part of the Language," in The Orlando Sentinel, April 8, 2003.

Porsdam, Helle. "In the Age of Lawspeak: Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Litigiousness," in Journal of American Studies, Volume 25.1, April 1991.

Ragen, Brian Abel. Tom Wolfe: A Critical Companion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Salamon, Julie. The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood, New York: Dell Publishing, 1992.

Sanoff, Alvin P. "Tom Wolfe's Walk on the Wild Side," in U.S. News and World Report, November 23, 1987.

Scura, Dorothy, ed. Conversations with Tom Wolfe, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

Sheinman, Mort. "Tom Wolfe: The Author of The Right Stuff, Blasts Off in This 1979 Interview," in WWD September 13, 1999.

Shomette, Doug, ed. The Critical Response to Tom Wolfe, Westport: Greenwoof, 1992.

Skube, Michael. "The Wolfe's at the Door," in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, November 8, 1998.

Stokes, Lisa. "Tom Wolfe's Narratives as Stories of Growth," in Journal of American Culture, Volume 14.3, Fall 1991.

Valley, Matt. "Tom Wolfe Doubts Europe's Support for U.S. in Crisis: Sporting His Trademark White Suit, the Famous Novelist Rails Against Critics Who Claim U.S. Policy Abroad Led to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11," in National Real Estate Investor, November 2, 2001.

Wood, James. "The Flying Trapezius," in The New Republic, December 14, 1998. Bibliography prepared by Donna McClish of the NEH Library

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