Maybe Wolfe Needed to Lift Weights

The Elegant Variation uncovers an interview with Henry Rollins about his admiration of Thomas Wolfe, which isn't confined to the prose:

You see all these photos of Wolfe, and he's just standing there in these clothes that it looked like he had already grew out of. You want to ask, "What, did he grow since this morning?" It's like he couldn't find the right tailor, and if he moves his arm, he's going to tear his jacket. He looks like the kind of guy that would knock over the water pitcher to get to the potatoes at a dinner table... He'd want to eat all the food, drink all the water, say all the words and hear all the stories. And then, he'd want to run back and write 5,000 words about dinner.