Wolfe said that Kesey would often test visitors and try to determine who among them was a "weekend hippie" and who actually followed the hippie lifestyle. "Kesey had this abiding distaste for pseudo-hippies - the journalist or the lawyer or teacher who on the weekend puts on his jeans and smokes a little dope." "To try and fit into that scene would have been fatal, perhaps literally fatal," he explained.
In 1987, Wolfe spoke to Terry Gross about writing The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and about his trademark three-piece white suits, which he continued to wear while following Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. In this new and flamboyant style, Wolfe wrote about Ken Kesey's LSD experiments in the book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In the '60s, he pioneered a style that he later named "the new journalism" - reporting that applied some of the techniques of fiction - like descriptive scene settings, dramatic tension, and dialogue. Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. Tom Wolfe began his career as a journalist, writing for The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Esquire and New York magazine.
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