In just six months, Leonardo DiCaprio has invented a new brand of book: the honest novel. Fact is now fiction, except when it’s not. On the red carpet Sunday at the Academy Awards, DiCaprio described his obsession with a novel called “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the book on which the Oscar-nominated film is based.
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That book is a memoir, one former Wall Street trader Jordan Belfort wrote about the financial malfeasance, philandering and excessive drug use that defined his own life. Those who have read the book note the film is a faithful adaptation, though with some of the narrative flourishes that any movie would take.