“As a titlist of flamboyance he is without peer in the Western world,” Joseph Epstein wrote in the The New Republic. “His prose style is normally shotgun baroque, sometimes edging over into machine-gun rococo, as in his article on Las Vegas which begins by repeating the word ‘hernia’ 57 times.”
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Wolfe was well-known for giving as good as he got, engaging in public battle with his most passionate literary critics – namely, Mailer, John Updike, John Irving and Noam Chomsky. In a 2001 essay titled My Three Stooges, Wolfe took on Mailer, Updike and Irving, writing, “It must gall them a bit that everyone — even them — is talking about me, and nobody is talking about them.”
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