This author wrote an essay that quotes Faulkner's three recommendations of 
This author wrote an essay that quotes Faulkner's three recommendations of "Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, and Anna Karenina" in arguing for the importance of that novel's depiction of society. The subject of an essay by this writer has a dream of saying "Amo, ergo sum" while a black man emerges from the piano he is playing and later has his wife Felicia greet their dinner guests. Jonathan (*) Franzen's "Perchance to Dream" was written as a response to this man's essay in which he laments the decline of realism in American literature, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast." A party hosted by Leonard Bernstein serves as the setting of his essay "Radical Chic." For 10 points, name this author who developed the style of New Journalism and who chronicled the lives of Project Mercury astronauts in The Right Stuff.
This author wrote an essay that quotes Faulkner's three recommendations of "Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, and Anna Karenina" in arguing for the importance of that novel's depiction of society.
Tom Wolfe