Toby Muse’s Reviews > The Bonfire of the Vanities > Status Update

Fantastic - one of the best journalists of all time writes a novel, reporting out each scene. It’s dated now, a historical document of the neuroses of New Yorkers of the 1980s. But there’s a breadth to his sweeping vision, a desire to put a whole, unique city in 600 pages or so. Every scene is filled with Wolfe’s insights and observations of the city and its people. Few novels now feel this big.