Author Tom Wolfe discusses his latest novel, Back to Blood

[@alano3834]

In honor of his passing, I just read Back to Blood. I recommend it highly.

[@Ted1775]

This is was great. I love your work Peter. Thank you for this interview with Tom Wolfe. He is well missed. RIP.

[@DaleRobby]

I've read all four of his fiction novels and found each one fantastic. I hope he has more novels in him.

[@MairinT]

And now, in 2018, Tom Wolfe has gone to his Maker and his book is prophetic...

[@connyherno5564]

Nice interview guys

[@theunpossiblefile]

Tom Wolfe is very good. My Name Is Charlotte Simmons is OK to good. UC is lucky to have him. Wolfe looks good for his age. Healthy looking face and curiosity.

[@acajudi100]

RIP TOM.

[@sthengr]

Wouldn't it be great for the masses to readopt traditional values allowing the sharks on Wall Street to literally run all over them!? Who is going to stop the wild behavior in Washington and Wall Street? Perhaps good ethics and values needs to swell from the bottom up?....I would like to see integrity from the top....but I know better.

[@dochollowood5763]

wow the interviewer, whom I have watched dozens of times, has never been so agitated and frankly for lack of a better phrase, going out of his mind just in the introduction, I shall watch more

[@DaleRobby]

"Looks good for his age" That is the sort of modern disgusting comment that Tom Wolfe would rip apart in a novel. What does that even mean, "looks good for his age".

[@51Dss]

Was that Theodore or Franklin D? I'm guessing Theodore...

[@Grifiki]

"Tom Wolfe?? I think this guy is a little too young to have born at the turn of the Century!!"

[@beckmill]

Wrong Tom Wolfe. Your guy died in 1938.

[@Tarbh1947]

And, of fanatic Muslims? "The worst of all the wars"? Religious fundamentalism.

[@7beers]

Extremely disappointing interview. Not on Peter's part -- on Tom's. 39:30 Peter asks *the* significant question: is Tom Wolfe trying to make a point or not in his writing? Tom's reply is disgraceful: "I have not brought that level of profundity to the act of writing". Translation: "I have no idea on earth whether or not I'm trying to make any point." Really, what an unserious, and even cowardly, reply. And I'm someone who adores much of Wolfe's work.

[@evadwall1057]

Wolfe has been consistant in his writing career on insisting that his role is solely that of reporter or chronicler. Many journalists and interviewers have tried to pin an agenda or political label on him, but he has been steadfast. There's no hidden purpose or "point," that's just his self assessment in his role as "the novelist as town crier."

[@DaleRobby]

I agree. This is the second time I've seen him evade that question. He did the same with Charlotte Simmons.

[@relinquis]

Insufferable interviewer...

[@erniereyes1994]

relinquis how so?