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Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast

Tom Wolfe

"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" is an essay by Tom Wolfe that appeared in the November 1989 issue of Harper's Magazine criticizing the American literary establishment for retreating from realism.

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“At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.”

Tom Wolfe book Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast

"Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", in Harper’s Magazine (November 1989)

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