'The Bonfire of the Vanities' Revisited with Alvin Hall
It's Memorial Day, and we're looking back at some of our favorite Takeaway conversations from the last year. We spoke with Alvin Hall in March, shortly after he had completed a five part series for our...
View ArticleNovember's Book: The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe’s bestselling novel The Bonfire of the Vanities is a portrait of New York in the late 1980s—a city seething with racial tension in Harlem and the Bronx while traders were raking in huge...
View ArticleVideo: Questions for Tom Wolfe
The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and the new novel Back to Blood sings a little, praises Michael Lewis, and cringes at the word issues. Listen to his conversation about The Bonfire of the...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: High Society
Guest host Cynthia Nixon introduces two tales of avarice and pretension among the well-heeled and well-born.High society and high comedy unite these tales by Tom Wolfe and Edith Wharton. First up, a...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: High Society
Guest host Cynthia Nixon introduces two tales of avarice and pretension among the well-heeled and well-born.High society and high comedy unite these tales by Tom Wolfe and Edith Wharton. First up, a...
View ArticleChelsea Bombing Update; Bridgegate Trial; Michelle Alexander; Tom Wolfe
Coming up on today's show:Maria Haberfeld, professor of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, former director of the Center for Strategic and International...
View ArticleKen Kesey's Acid Quest
April 19th, which was this past Thursday, marks an odd holiday known as Bicycle Day — the day, now 75 years ago, when Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann rode his bike home from work after dosing himself...
View ArticleMoving Beyond the Norm
Alex Jones built his Infowars brand on conspiratorial thinking and table-pounding rage. This week, we look at the three lawsuits testing whether Jones can sustain his business on lies alone. After the...
View ArticleTom Wolfe, Author of 'Bonfire of the Vanities,' Dies at 88
Author Tom Wolfe, who chronicled everything from hippies to the space race before turning his eye to fiction, has died. He was 88.Wolfe’s agent Lynn Nesbit told The Associated Press that Wolfe died in...
View ArticleTribute: Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe, the iconic bestselling writer – and one of the best-dressed! – just died at the age of 87 from pneumonia. He was known for his satirical light touch over the course of many novels, ranging...
View Article20 Artists We Lost in 2018
The end of the year prompts us all to reflect on the events that have shaped our lives over the past 12 months. While there have been some triumphs and disasters — and the occasional funny moment —...
View ArticleKen Kesey's Acid Quest
Happy New Year! In this pod extra, we're celebrating what might be your first hangover of 2020 — whether it's fueled by alcohol or just the thought of the year ahead. So, we thought we'd bring you the...
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