NP but drugs and also Wolfe. In which there is a link to that Fresh Air psychodrugs bit mentioned.

[Mark Kohut]

and Acid Test  below and Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby
still matter. And The Pump House Gang. At least. At most.

(Here'a a remark to bring out the disagreements. These books did to
journalism in English of the time what On The Road did to its fiction (per
TRP and not alone):

https://quartzy.qz.com/1279051/tom-wolfes-electric-kool-aid-
acid-test-still-holds-up-50-years-after-its-publication/

Kurt is always saying (about Kandy-Kolored) : *"An excellent book by a
genius," *said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the
1960s from the founder of new journalism.

and this On Kandy-Kolored:
"This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years from now,
when it will bring back, like a falcon in the sky of memory, a whole world
that is currently jetting and jazzing its way somewhere or other."--

A...and, "style doesn't matter if you don't do the reporting". Wolfe
hisself.


https://books.google.com/books?id=uOhsxOeev7wC&pg=PA85&dq=wolfe+%2B+pump+house+gang+excerpt&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Saw him once in his white suit walking on the street, not on the sidewalk
in the upper East Side 70s. Always self-assured; looking jaunty even if he
wasn't. Just like some dude in a wide-awake hat in AtD.

More to diagree with:
Even his only novel worth reading, maybe, imao [arrogant], Bonfire of the
Vanities is too Victorian to last as important fiction of our time.