NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 25 number 1 - Fall 2004

Friends of the Library News--Tom Wolfe Special Event Planned

By Mary Kate Keith, Friends of the Library

Tom Wolfe, the renowned and provocative reporter and author of such bestselling nonfiction works as The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and novels such as The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full, will be guest speaker at a special Friends reading at NC State's McKimmon Center. The reading will be held on Wednesday, December 1, 2004, at 7:00 P.M. Wolfe, who has been described as the "father of New Journalism" and who has pursued a successful career as a reporter for newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune, will be on tour promoting his highly anticipated new book I am Charlotte Simmons. The novel tells the story of a college freshman from North Carolina who discovers that academic success does not always equal power in an academic environment that often glorifies social, moral, and political corruption. The November release of the book comes four years after the publication of his novel Hooking Up

Tickets are $5 for the general public. NC State students may attend for free with a valid student ID. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from the Friends of the Library and Quail Ridge Books and Music. NCSU students can pick up a free ticket at either location when they present their student ID. Quail Ridge Books and Music also will provide a free ticket with the purchase of I am Charlotte Simmons from its location on Wade Avenue or at the McKimmon Center. Wolfe will be available to sign books after he speaks.

For additional information, call the Friends office, Monday through Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., at (919) 515-2841.