Bonfire of the Vanities at NYT Reading Room

Posted by admin on 04.04.2008 at 10:21 am

Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full

Hey readers, I was just checking out the New York Times when I saw that their feature “Reading Room” was tackling Tom Wolfe’s great-text-cum-awful-movie, Bonfire of the Vanities.  “Reading Room” is an excellent discussion about a text.  In this case it begins with an hour long podcast with Wolfe, discussing everything from journalism to his thesis to his works and then moves forward with some really fascinating discussion about race and the book as a period piece (which I would say, and they would agree, that it is most certainly not).

Anyway, here’s the beginning and here’s the rest (N.B. like any blog, start at the bottom to sift through the lot).

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