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Tom Wolfe has died. His work changed my life and convinced me to write nonfiction. Fare thee well, Tom.
I carried a copy of Electric Acid Kool-aid Test with me throughout high school, dazzled by the idea that you could really write like that about real things.
Oops my pre-coffee brain wrote that wrong. ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST.
Thank you, my writing heroes. You've been great teachers. #wolfe #didion #mitchell #mcphee #ross #liebling
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