Master of the Universe

If you liked Bonfire of the Vanities, check out Tom Wolfe's look at New York's hedge fund managers, twenty years after.

"What's happened? What's happened is, I just spent $200,000 on a state-of-the-art positive-pressure HVAC system in our apartment, and I've gotta put in new windows to make it work right, and I gotta put four vents, four lousy little vents, through the walls of this building, which nobody's ever gonna notice--and I've gotta do it now--AND THE BOARD IN ALL ITS AUGUST WISDOM IS BREAKING MY--OBSTRUCTING ME EVERY INCH OF THE WAY!"

And to think, these are the people Wolfe chooses to live amongst. As a side note, Wolfe lives every American writer's dream. Bash the rich Wall St. people's, bash the racial demagogues and the politicians -- all the while living in midtown Manhattan and making truckloads of money.