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‘FOR some goddamn reason,” Henry Luce famously complained, “Republicans can’t write.” Elsewhere in this issue, Richard Lowry reviews Tom Wolfe’s new novel, A Man in Full (page 50). Mr. Wolfe, as all the world knows, is a conservative, in all likelihood also a Republican. But does that make him a Conservative Literary Figure? Is there, in fact, any such thing?
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Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.
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No buttons No side seams
‘FOR some goddamn reason,” Henry Luce famously complained, “Republicans can’t write.” Elsewhere in this issue, Richard Lowry reviews Tom Wolfe’s new novel, A Man in Full (page 50). Mr. Wolfe, as all the world knows, is a conservative, in all likelihood also a Republican. But does that make him a Conservative Literary Figure? Is there, in fact, any such thing?
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About the Author
Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.
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