Tom Wolfe: King Of Zonk
April, 1966
Gander of the goosed-up sentence is a 34-year-old writer of nonfiction whose prose reads as though it were fed through a faulty telephone connection. He is Tom Wolfe, the man who took the zonks, zaps and zowies out of comic strips and pop art (see Playboy After Hours, December 1965) and put them into the New York Herald Tribune, where now they offer a Sunday supplement respite from the pontifical pronouncements of the Trib's Walter Lippmann and Roscoe Drummond. Super . . . . . . fantastic!!!! is...
