One recurring knock against Ernest Hemingway is that late in his career, he fell back on lazy imitations of the terse machismo that had made him famous. But any writer with a distinctive style runs the risk of self-parody. Consider Tom Wolfe, who used exclamation points and electric Kool-Aid prose to help reinvent journalism before moving on to Technicolor zeitgeisty novels like “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full.”
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