Tom Wolfe

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Speaker 4 mentions having 'just finished reading the right stuff' when discussing space topics with Tony Peterson during a fishing trip. This is referenced in a conversation about Tony Peterson's interest in outer space.

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Referenced as 'the Tom Wolfe novel' in discussion of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, where a yuppie accidentally goes off the wrong exit

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Referenced as 'some of the Tom Wolf books about New York City in the sixties' during Andrew Zimmern's discussion of his mother as a 'free and loose sixties housewife' and Park Avenue housewives raising money for the Black Panther Party. Specific titles not mentioned.

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Discussed as an example of New Journalism, where writers brought literary techniques into journalism, dropped pretense of objectivity, and became characters in their own stories. Described as 'not a news story about LSD' but 'a little deeper than that.'