Wolfe to write about social status

Tom Wolfe says his next book will look at Wall Street types who hide their status, dress like delinquents and act like bad seeds. It will be nonfiction, ending a string of three novels and marking a return to the genre that made Wolfe famous as a founder of New Journalism.

In Brazil to promote his most recent novel, “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” Wolfe said that his next book would address social status -- why executives often feel compelled to dress in jeans, motorcycle jackets and T-shirts.