"The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby."
Dec 23, 2023 18:58:44 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Dec 23, 2023 18:58:44 GMT -6
My car friend Louis sent me this link, because he was watching a bio on Tom Wolfe on Netflix. I had run across references to this seminal piece before, but never read it in its entirety til now. WARNING: it's lengthy, but brilliantly captures the custom car culture in SoCal and has significant interviews with George Barris and Big Daddy Roth. If like me, you dig car culture in the post WWII era and how our showrod hobby evolved, it's a must-read. I did not know that is was "New Journalism". The year was 1963:
classic.esquire.com/article/share/b325d659-e840-4d63-9c5b-6beb316083fe
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From Google's Bard on Tim Wolfe:
Tom Wolfe was a major figure at Esquire magazine in the 1960s and 1970s. He is considered one of the pioneers of "New Journalism," a style of writing that blurred the lines between fiction and non-fiction and incorporated literary techniques into reportage.
Wolfe's early career was launched at Esquire. He landed his first major assignment for the magazine in 1963, during a newspaper strike in New York City. This assignment, a piece on the hot rod and custom car culture of southern California, eventually became his iconic article "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." This article not only helped shape the New Journalism movement but also established Wolfe as a leading voice in American culture.
Over the next decade, Wolfe wrote numerous other articles for Esquire, covering a wide range of topics from the space race to the counterculture movement. He became known for his vivid descriptions, satirical wit, and ability to capture the essence of American subcultures. His Esquire articles were later collected into two books, "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" and "The Pump-House Gang."
While Wolfe eventually went on to write novels and other long-form works, his contributions to Esquire remain a significant part of his legacy. He helped redefine magazine writing and paved the way for a generation of new journalists.
classic.esquire.com/article/share/b325d659-e840-4d63-9c5b-6beb316083fe
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From Google's Bard on Tim Wolfe:
Tom Wolfe was a major figure at Esquire magazine in the 1960s and 1970s. He is considered one of the pioneers of "New Journalism," a style of writing that blurred the lines between fiction and non-fiction and incorporated literary techniques into reportage.
Wolfe's early career was launched at Esquire. He landed his first major assignment for the magazine in 1963, during a newspaper strike in New York City. This assignment, a piece on the hot rod and custom car culture of southern California, eventually became his iconic article "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." This article not only helped shape the New Journalism movement but also established Wolfe as a leading voice in American culture.
Over the next decade, Wolfe wrote numerous other articles for Esquire, covering a wide range of topics from the space race to the counterculture movement. He became known for his vivid descriptions, satirical wit, and ability to capture the essence of American subcultures. His Esquire articles were later collected into two books, "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" and "The Pump-House Gang."
While Wolfe eventually went on to write novels and other long-form works, his contributions to Esquire remain a significant part of his legacy. He helped redefine magazine writing and paved the way for a generation of new journalists.