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  • The "Governor" in Wolfe's "I am Charlotte Simmons" is you-know-who!

    02/12/2005 10:20:55 AM PST · by WL-law · 26 replies · 1,470+ views
    self | 02-11-05 | WL-Law
    News Flash to all Freepers reading Tom Wolfe’s “I am Charlotte Simmons”: I can personally attest that the story of the “Governor of California” represented in the book, who receives oral sex from a college undergrad coed, is based on a true story. The true governor was the Governor of Arkansas, and the year was 1988 (yes, him!). The event was not a Commencement, with the governor-as-commencement-speaker, as represented in the book: in reality, it was at Washington and Lee University’s quadrennial “Mock Convention”: it was a mock Democratic Convention, and Clinton was here as a speaker. It occurred not...
  • Wolfe's Bad Sex Wins Big ("Slither, Slither Went the Tongue...")

    12/14/2004 5:14:03 AM PST · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 85 replies · 2,630+ views
    New York Post ^ | 12/14/04 | Reuters
    December 14, 2004 -- LONDON — Writer Tom Wolfe won one of the world's most dreaded literary accolades yesterday — the British prize for bad sex in fiction. Wolfe won it for a couple of purple passages from his latest novel, "I am Charlotte Simmons," a tale of campus life at a fictional Southern university.