It’s interesting: Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff is one of those rare things that worked equally well as a book and as a movie. And on relatively similar terms, too. Sometimes you have to go through a lot of trouble to turn a good book into a good movie, but not this time.
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RIP, Tom Wolfe.
Tom Wolfe was 87, and one of the best writers of my time. Everybody’s going to be talking about The Right Stuff or his later works, but I always had a fondness for From Bauhaus to Our House. Wolfe made modern architecture fascinating; or, rather, he helped people understand why it was fascinating. Which is what nonfiction is supposed to do.
My prayers and good wishes to his family and loved ones.