Word: editor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wolfe's editors read over his ping-pong language, his "be-here-now!" style and decided not to reassign the piece. They figured all Wolfe's work needed was a little editing before publishing. They ended up simply striking the greeting to the editor at the beginning of the memo and published the story otherwise unchanged...
...Vanities] is the first novel that I can remember since Catcher in the Rye that you can assume everybody has read. It is a common denominator among literary people," says Clay Felker, who edited Wolfe two decades ago back at The New York Herald Tribune and is now editor of Manhattan...
Speaking broadly, Tom Wolfe is capable of writing virtually any form of non-fiction and writing it, in a way that is usually very original and provocative and sometimes controversial," says Lee Eisenberg, editor-in-chief of Esquire, where Wolfe is a contributing editor. "He is especially gifted at making sense of cultural phenomena. He can see into something going on today in a way that few journalists can. My only regret is that there aren't 100 Tom Wolfes around...
...greatest journalist in America in my mind in terms of his ability to report and write and to think--to come up with insights," says Felker, Wolfe's editor at the Herald-Tribune at the time his freelance Esquire piece introduced a new brand of journalism...
...Peralta skateboards: "People who had power in the industry tried to make skating a Little League sport. But kids want skating to be their sport, not their parents'." Skateboarding languished until it burnished its outlaw image anew. Now "skaters are the punk rockers of the sport set," says Thrasher Editor Kevin Thatcher. But aside from a taste for heavy metal-tinged rock, this is a matter more of appearance than substance...