remains: Why does a writer whose ambitions are so fundamentally journalistic insist on processing his reportage into fiction? You may never put down a Tom Wolfe novel. But you never reread one, either." London-based Literary Review gave Wolfe its 2004 Bad Sex in Fiction Award, an "honor" established "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel", for his writing in I Am Charlotte Simmons. Wolfe's 2018 obituary in The New York Times referenced mixed reviews for the book. Proposed adaptation In 2005, the film rights to I Am Charlotte Simmons were purchased by Trilogy Entertainment, with co-founder John Watson producing and writing the screenplay. Three years later, Liz Friedlander was attached as director, while HBO began looking at developing the book for television. In 2021, Veritas Entertainment acquired the television rights for I Am Charlotte Simmons. The series is being developed at Paramount Television Studios, with Brian Yorkey as showrunner. References External links Slate Book Club review The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: 'Moral Suicide,' à la Wolfe, The New York Times, November 16, 2004 2004 American novels American satirical novels Campus novels English-language novels Farrar, Straus and Giroux books Novels by Tom Wolfe Novels set in Pennsylvania