Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.
WorksThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Right Stuff; A Man In Full; Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers; The Bonfire Of The Vanities; Back To Blood
AwardsNational Humanities Medal; National Book Award
