In several pre-and post-publication interviews, Wolfe speaks of having conducted observational research at college campuses across the United States-Stanford University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, among them-to gather and verify Charlotte Simmons's material. Perhaps more importantly, Charlotte Simmons is a novel buttressed by the sort of pre-composition reportage through which Wolfe has traditionally established authorial ethos and expertise. Tom Wolfe's most recent book, I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004), is a campus novel replete with the kind of literary pyrotechnics for which Wolfe has long been famous-the point-of-view shifts the extended and extensive use of dialogue to establish both scene and subjectivities of characters and the liberal use of quirky punctuation, to include rampant ellipses, colons, italics, and exclamation points.
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