This author, who set Back to Blood in (*) Miami, argued for a new American realism in "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," and used Duke as the basis for his DuPont University in I Am Charlotte Simmons.
James Wood critiqued this man's onomatopoetic image of a boat going "SMACK from swell SMACK to swell SMACK to swell SMACK," and his "identically voiced characters," reviewing a novel by this man about forgeries in the Korolyov Museum of Art exposed by police officer Nestor Camacho. He also created Adam Gellin, a news editor who tutors basketball star Jojo Johannsen and comforts a girl from Appalachia after she loses her virginity. This author, who set Back to Blood in (*) Miami, argued for a new American realism in "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," and used Duke as the basis for his DuPont University in I Am Charlotte Simmons. In his first novel, a tire thrown by Wall Street banker Sherman McCoy incites racial tensions in New York. For 10 points, name this author who adapted New Journalism techniques in his novel Bonfire of the Vanities.
James Wood critiqued this man's onomatopoetic image of a boat going "SMACK from swell SMACK to swell SMACK to swell SMACK," and his "identically voiced characters," reviewing a novel by this man about forgeries in the Korolyov Museum of Art exposed by police officer Nestor Camacho.
Tom Wolfe [or Thomas Kennerly Wolfe; do not accept or prompt on "Thomas Wolfe" by itself; accept Thomas K. Wolfe but not "Thomas Clayton Wolfe" or "Thomas C. Wolfe"]