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

[Mark Kohut]

No. Just ON THE ROAD summary from there. 

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> On May 18, 2018, at 8:56 AM, David Elliott <ellidavd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> "These books did to
> journalism in English of the time what On The Road did to its fiction (per
> TRP and not alone):"
> 
> Is that quote from the Slow Learner introduction?
> 
> 
> On Friday, May 18, 2018, 7:16:17 AM EDT, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
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