Word: flake
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Wolfe...
...Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Wolfe...
...Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Wolfe...
...Wolfe who for the past year and a half has been writing breathless, semi-surrealistic articles for Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine, New York. A collection of these pieces comes out this week as a $5.50 book called The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. On the dust jacket the publishers tout Wolfe as quite a conversation piece: people "have been talking happily about him, singing his praises, debating about their favorite pieces, planning branches of The New Tom Wolfe Fan Club." Well, people have been talking unhappily about him, too, lampooning his literary...
...Byron Dobell told him to type out his notes; somebody else would be assigned to write them up. Wolfe began typing the notes as a letter to Editor Dobell, which went on all night and added up to 49 pages. This, word for word, was The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, and from then on Wolfe tried to write his pieces as though he were writing a letter to one man, putting down all the irrelevant digressions and self-indulgent whimsicalities and sound effects that popped into his head. "Of course that's easier said than done nowadays...