Playboy After Hours

December, 1965

All of us find the bounds imposed by conventional English occasionally stifling, but every so often a writer comes along and does something about it. The latest--and hottest--is a perceptive young man named Tom Wolfe, best known for his trenchant takeout on The New Yorker (in the New York Herald Tribune Sunday supplement) and a widely heralded collection of observations on the pop culture scene: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. Wolfe's frisky, flashy and flamboyant style utiliz...