“I knew that if I had to make a deadline, I could make a deadline,” Wolfe was quoted as saying in Joe Hagan’s recent biography “Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine.” The book had an unusual beginning, serialized in 27 installments in Rolling Stone magazine starting in 1984. Two examples of this were “Masters of the Universe,” describing a Wall Street heavy-hitter, and “social X-ray,” outlining the ladies who lunch on New York’s Upper East Side. Phrases coined by “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” about a Wall Street bond trader who falls from grace after accidentally running over a black teenager while driving in Harlem, rapidly became part of public conversation.
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