SURVIVING CRITICISM
Tom Wolfe is the well known author of The Right Stuff. (About the astronauts) and a number of other popular topics. He has written articles that have assaulted our current culture. After one particularly strong satirical piece he was attacked furiously by numerous critics. In a West magazine interview he spoke about his response to being so villified: Q. Were you scared the first time you saw their fury come at you? A. I was. Walter Lippmann, a confidant of presidents who wrote on my very own paper, called me an ass. J. D. Salinger, who hadn’t uttered a word to the press in a decade, sent a telegram calling my articles yellow journalism. E. B. White described me as a horseman riding very tall in the saddle, dragging an innocent victim on the ground behind him. I thought the sky was falling. I wondered how I could possibly survive this. A week later, it gradually began to dawn on me nothing…
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