susan orlean, it's a pleasure to have you with us what was it about tom wolfe?hat was it about him that influenced you? n i read "the electric kool-aid acid test" whewas in high school, and as much as i was a big reader at the time, this war trantional. there was a voice, a confidence, a tone that i had never encountered before, particularly in nonfiction. i carried ou carryied tndat booh me for years. >> and really do think it's what made me want to be anfiction writer. there was just a spirit in his writing that had never-- i had never encounted before. it was like hearing jazz for the first time. >> woodruff: well, it's interesting, he just saiif that interview with elizabeth farnzworth, he men american life. he was uniquely american, wasn't he? zinges, and he took the ama mosaic of american subcultures as his subject, everything from the merry prganksters travel on their bus, taking l.s.d. every five minutes, to the upper east side, very affluent and indulged denizens of that neighborhood. and he looked at them all i a somewhat equal way. these were tribes t