Fans of "Look Homeward Angel" might enjoy Wolfe's original version, before Perkins started chopping things out of it. It was published not long ago under the original title, "O Lost."

Speaking of Thomas Wolfe reminds me of one the greatest satires of recent American life, "Bonfire of the Vanities," by the unrelated *Tom* Wolfe.

The movie version, by the way, was godawful. Read the book.