Tom Wolfe picks a new publisher
Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown & Co.
“The opportunity to work with the American master Tom Wolfe is the kind of thrill and challenge that people entering book publishing dream of,” Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch said Wednesday.
One of the original “New Journalists” of the 1960s, the 76-year-old Wolfe is known for such bestselling novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full” and for such nonfiction classics as “The Right Stuff” and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”
His new novel, “Back to Blood,” will be a “Bonfire”-like tour of Miami, taking on “class, family, wealth, race, crime, sex, corruption and ambition.”
Publication is scheduled for 2009.
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