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Wolfe's original protagonist was a famous UpperĮast Side novelist now he was a bond trader on Wall Street. Pressure, were engaging but unsatisfying. The original installments, often written under extreme deadline He embarked on a novel, which first was serialized in Rolling Then, after the enormous success of The Right Stuff, Wolfe changed Even his worst imitators could not dim the Journalism, if not original to Wolfe, nonetheless kicked off a goldenĪge in American journalism. The ideal of applying the techniques of fiction to While Woodward and Bernstein were busy proving that journalism couldīring down the government, wolfe showed how it could change writing andĮnrich the culture. And reporting was suddenly more than just relevant or fun. Guilty about that abandoned novel in the desk drawer? The future was in Which could provide the texture and in sight of Dickens or Dostoevskyįor young journalists, this was intoxicating stuff. Powers.' Wolfe thought the new king of letters was journalism, Wrote, with the 'joys of detailed realism and its strange The novel had lost touch with its roots, he In his memorable introduction to The New Journalism, a 1973Ĭollection of classic magazine pieces, Tom Wolfe declared that modernĪmerican fiction was dead. APA style: The Bonfire of the Vanities.The Bonfire of the Vanities.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'The Bonfire of the Vanities.' The Free Library.

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