AhYaOk (August 26, 2008 at 6:36 am)

I love Wolfe, but all that hard wired talk gave me a headache. I dont agree that anything is really hardwired, in the same way that that they thought that DNA was a set structure only to find that it changes or how light is both a wave and a partical. Its just not that simple.

0zyzzyz0 (August 21, 2008 at 9:01 pm)

...and so it goes

0zyzzyz0 (August 21, 2008 at 8:56 pm)

Faulkner can be tuff read, but he packs enough of a whallop to make the effort worth while. I would recomment Breadfast of Champions as well. Don't bother with the movie version. God Bless You Mr Rosewater should keep you wanting to read more too. Hocus Pocus i actually didn't like. Cat's Cradle i've read three times - about once a decade. I'm due for another curl up with it.I've enjoyed Wolfe's beat influenced writings. Don't really know him beyond that but wasn't impressed here.

Bremerxxx (August 8, 2008 at 12:55 am)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is my favorite writer. I've loved everyone of his novels, essays, poems, and so on.

ArtMusicRepeat (July 13, 2008 at 4:48 am)

Except...Faulkner was fucking boring! :P

mrsmxyzptlk (July 10, 2008 at 1:01 am)

Wilson's spent most of his career at Harvard.

Kurtlane (June 20, 2008 at 8:35 am)

I wonder if Edward O. Wilson from Harvard is the same Professor Wilson I had in UCLA genetics class in 1989 or 1990. He was a terrific professor, probably the best I ever had.

Kurtlane (June 20, 2008 at 8:33 am)

Tom Wolfe wrote that article in 1996, and this interview was made shortly after. So now, in 2008, where are we?Not much has changed. Creationists are spouting nonsense. Richard Dawkins wrote a stupid book in reaction to stupid creationists. The internet ties the world, yet Geographic locations, national boundaries and political processes matter more than ever. Instead of world peace, we are facing world war. Science keeps marching on, leaving people even farther behind. What a picture!

SavageHenry78 (June 11, 2008 at 2:57 pm)

I read Slaughterhouse-Five in two days. You can't put something that good down easily. I also love all his short stories. There is something about a man with that kind of humor.

Entropy56 (June 8, 2008 at 10:39 pm)

As millions of others. And...?