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Happy 20th birthday, ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’! … [Books]

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December 10, 2007

Happy 20th birthday, ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’! … [Books]
tomwolfe.jpg Happy 20th birthday, ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’! Today, the Times celebrates Tom Wolfe’s novel with a look at the ways New York has changed since 1987—it’s full of rich white people now, did you know?—and interviews with some of the people who characters in the book were based on, or who knew those people. The choicest quote comes from Ronald L. Kuby, the former partner of the radical lawyer William ‘Al Vogel’ Kunstler. “‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ … managed to create a fantasy…

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