In Cold Blood vs. The Bonfire of The Vanities: Non-Fiction Novels and The New Journalism
Truman Capote released In Cold Blood in 1966; Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of The Vanities was published in 1987. Twenty-one years between them, the two books continue to have lasting effect as influential treatises regarding, what Wolfe confirmed by title in his 1973 text of the same name, as ‘The New Journalism’. These two books are not comparable in plot,…
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