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[...]Dylan Nealis dons a prophetic mantle to warn that literary studies can survive the \"egotism and ennui\" of postmodern society only by rejecting the amorality of theory and admitting once again literature's capacity to \"offer a vision of the world as it should be and not merely as it is.\" - Like Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Wolfe's four-part novella embraces modernism's unease with omniscience and explores how any truth is composed of fragmentary and often competing points of view.

In a 1950 letter to Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac mused, \" [I]f Wolfe had lived\" and gone on to write a book in what Kerouac called \"voice-from-the-howling-wilderness tones\" and based perhaps on a coast-to-coast walking tour, \"what that would have been...\" If we judge by a very young Tom's response to World War I in, for example, \"The Challenge,\" and by his mature awareness of the Fascist threat as expressed in \"The Spanish Letter\" and \"I Have a Thing to Tell You,\" we must assume patriotic engagement. Wolfe's books were praised for their love of America, and Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River were both published as economical paperbacks by the Council on Books in Wartime and distributed to members of the armed forces (\"List\"). \"Progressed Jupiter in Sagittarius still in the First House of Self, when Wolfe would have been about fifty-one, indicates continued personal growth through travel, ideas, and learning ...\"

According to an article published in the New York World- Telegram and Sun of 11 February 1958, Holmes was scheduled to speak about her friendship with Wolfe at the following evening's meeting of the \"Thomas Wolfe Biography Club,\" founded almost twenty-five years earlier, according to the account, \"by the late Prof. John Terry.\" [...]Estelle Holmes claimed no intimacy with Thomas Wolfe: \"Did I know him well? A little?

Gors line's evolving visual renderings of the writer as man may be seen to parallel evolving responses to Wolfe's literary works as represented in the criticism and scholarship produced over the decades since the publication of Look Homeward, Angel. [...]above all, I can only attempt to indicate the all-important role(s) of Designer/Compositor and Associate Editor David Strange.

Looking back at the risks that Wolfe took, his explicit awareness of his own position, his role as witness, his refusal to compress human nature into easy dichotomies, his willingness to forego preoccupation with professional success and personal well-being, and his dedication to truth, judgment, and taste as he saw them, we have before us an excellent model of the public intellectual so needed in our own time. Returning the focus to the mountains and Wolfe's native town is the final article of \"Belles Lettres,\" Bill Beltz's recollection of his own encounters with Wolfe-and with Asheville and its citizens: \"Hey, Anybody Here See Thomas Wolfe?\" In addition to prize-winning short stories, \"Queen City Playhouse\" by Kristin FitzPatrick, and \"Eleanor\" by L. K. Gornick, this issue includes a powerful \"Fictional Response\" to Wolfe's The Lost Boy.