![]() A year before Woodstock, when the only people who knew what a "hippie" was were the few honest burghers unfortunate enough still to be living across the street from the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, he published The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1967). Before people figured out that the 1960s were really "the Sixties" he had already explained what was going on, and why, in a series of articles compiled into his first book. Since he first started writing feature stories for the New York Herald Tribune in the early 1960s, Tom Wolfe has had great timing. But if the author's intention is to explain what is going on all around us at a given moment, and to record it for posterity, then saying that he has a genius for timing is high praise indeed. Usually when a reviewer compliments an author on his timing, he means it as an insult, a way of damning with faint praise. A review of I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe ![]()
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