Iconic writer

Tom Wolfe, one of the most influential American writers of post-World War II America, and pioneer of New Journalism, developed in the 1960s, has died. He wrote best-selling novels such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), about a band of hippies who travelled across the US on a school bus doing LSD, and Bonfire of the

Vanities (1987), a huge commercial success that was turned into a movie by cult filmmaker Brian De Palma. He wrote extensively about the LSD counterculture, and was praised for his unforgettable and unique style — he was famously fond of over-punctuation and onomatopoeia, and for having coined some well-known phrases such as “radical chic” and “the Me Decade”. iconic emblématique / New Journalism style de journalisme faisant appel à certaines techniques littéraires, adopté principalement dans la presse écrite des années 1960 et 1970 / The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (VF) Acid Test / band groupe / Bonfire of the Vanities (VF) Le Bûcher des vanités / extensively beaucoup / to praise louer, célébrer / to be fond of affectionner / to coin forger, inventer / the «Me Decade» réf. au nombrilisme des années 1970.