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Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine is a 1976 book by Tom Wolfe, consisting of eleven essays and one short story that Wolfe wrote between 1967 and 1976. [1] It includes the essay in which he coined the term "the 'Me' Decade" to refer to the 1970s. In addition to the stories, Wolfe also illustrated the book. [2] [3]
"The ' Me ' Decade and the Third Great Awakening" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coined the phrase " 'Me' Decade", a term that became common as a descriptor for the 1970s. The essay was first published as the cover story in the August 23, 1976, issue of New York magazine [1] and later appeared in his collection Mauve Glove
It first appeared under a longer title in the July 1967 issue of Esquire magazine, [1] and was later published in the collection Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. [2] The essay introduced the term "pornoviolence" in reference to graphic written or audiovisual depictions of violence, which Wolfe argued were used in newspapers, magazines ...
His Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1977) included Wolfe's noted essay, The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening. The Mercury Seven astronauts were the subject of The Right Stuff. In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, an account of the pilots who became America's first astronauts.
After The Painted Word, Wolfe published a collection of his essays, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976), and his history of the earliest years of the space program, The Right Stuff (1979). Undeterred by the hostile critical response to The Painted Word , and perhaps even encouraged by the stir the book made, Wolfe set about writing a ...
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine; The Mighty Marvel Comics Strength and Fitness Book; Monty: His Part in My Victory; Moses: A Narrative; N. National Lampoon ...
After the series, Wolfe began researching the whole of the space program, in what became a seven-year project from which he took time to write The Painted Word, a book on art, and to complete Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, a collection of shorter pieces. [5] In 1977 he returned to his astronaut book full-time.
In his 1976 essay collection, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter and Vine, Tom Wolfe recounted a rueful story that circulated among Navy pilots who flew sorties against the Thanh Hóa Bridge. In their telling, the Earth consisted of two hemispheres, spring-loaded and held together opposite the hinge by the bridge.