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    Tom Wolfe, Straight-Arrow Virginia Gent

    by Gordon Lish May 16, 2018 2 minutes

    Tom Wolfe, New York City, November 2011.

    Back in the day when I was stepping out and Anatole Broyard kept a one-room city fifth-floor walkup in which I would not infrequently step out in, Tom was living only a block or so easterly and would, damn our eyes, catch me making my way to or from where I wasn’t

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