Class Lessons

Forty years ago Tom Wolfe pioneered a snappy, "you are there" kind of reporting - what he called "the new journalism." Now he writes novels, but Wolfe says he's still a reporter at heart, tackling tough issues like class and social status. He says most American fiction is self-indulgent - cut off from the real world. This time on To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll talk with Tom Wolfe about what makes a good novel, and why he loves to write about humiliation.