The Village Voice, November 17th, 2004
I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS By Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 676 pp. $28.95 College kids say the darndest things: Awesome, sexiled, dormcest, and . . . mons pubis! THE MISEDUCATION OF TOM WOLFE I would love to tell you that the dandy in the white suit is back. That he has waded into the sewage tank that is contemporary youth culture (white suit be damned!) and returned with a blistering commentary on the rapacious, oversexed early years of the 21st century. But that would be a lie. With I Am Charlotte Simmons, Wolfe continues the painful process of eroding his hard-earned reputation as ...
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