Books like Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

This makes for a nice demo tape, an EP, of Tom Wolfe's writing - here he is in top form, as fast and noxious as traffic, paranoid, cynical, full of detail and onomatopoeia, the smell of the American Dream from every which way - jet pilots blasting off aircraft carriers, vain Madison Avenue authors choking on their own calculators, neurotic yoga students Primal Scream-ing on their hemorrhoids - a big range of characters with totally different lives, and yet all who seem to speak in the same wild-eyed voice, to convulse to the same Wolfe rhythms, sentences that never end, bristling with exclamation points, exquisitely, miraculously non-fiction, a panic attack, over-the-top modern American writing that you can take to like Garfield to lasagna.