The Bonfire of the Vanities Links

Related Links on The Bonfire of the Vanities

Bonfire of the Vanities on tomwolfe.com - An overview of the book. This site contains a biography of Tom Wolfe, and information on his other books.

Article on Savonarola - This article on Savonarola by the Church History Institute has a Christian slant, but provides a good overview of the history and context of the bonfires of the vanities in Florence.

Steam Control by Elizabeth Wright - Interesting and excellent review of Bonfire of the Vanities on an African-American intellectual and political website.

UTA article about Bonfire film - University of Texas at Austin's Tarlton Library's review of the Bonfire of the Vanities film. This has an interesting view of how race and ethnicity are handled in the legal system that also applies to what was written in the book. This article contains a very apt skewering of Wolfe's social conservatism and badly concealed anti-Semitism.

Essay in Partial Payments by Joseph Epstein - An essay about Bonfire of the Vanities in a book about writers and their lives.

Tom Wolfe Bio in The Guardian Unlimited - Amusing short collection of information on the author.

Guide to Tom Wolfe - Links to books, bios, and other information about the author.

Interview with Tom Wolfe - Nuvo Newsweekly's interview by Steve Hammer