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  • September 2008

    • Wolfe: Stars Went to Hedge Funds Long Ago

      New York Times  |  Sep 28, 08 1:35 PM CDT

      Wolfe: Stars Went to Hedge Funds Long Ago

      (Newser) - Tom Wolfe has been fielding a lot of questions about where the Wall Street crisis leaves the Masters of the Universe now, writes the author of the seminal book about the excesses of 1980s traders in the New York Times . But, he notes, the real investment banking superstars left for hedge funds 6 years ago, long before the banks failed. And they've been comfortably ensconced in hedge funds ever since as the New York Stock Exchange emptied out. More »

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      Wall Street  • New York Stock Exchange  • investment bankers  • hedge funds  • Tom Wolfe  • Greenwich

  • July 2008

    • Wolfe on Felker: New York Was His Invention

      New York  |  Jul 8, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      Wolfe on Felker: New York Was His Invention

      (Newser) - Tom Wolfe writes with great fondness—and more than a little self-indulgence—about the giddy heyday of the New Journalism, when he and Clay Felker, the legendary magazine editor who died last week, collaborated on the invention of New York magazine. With a gimlet eye for status and boundless social appetites--one year he claimed to have eaten dinner at home only eight times—Felker created a sociology of the fabulous and stylish, enabling Wolfe to write some of his best and most influential work. More »

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      New York City  • Tom Wolfe  • Clay Felker

  • April 2008

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