Thursday, January 03, 2008

Tom Wolfe gets new publisher for Miami book

Story here.

Tom Wolfe, the author of sprawling social novels like “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full,” has severed his 42-year relationship with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and agreed to sell the rights to publish his next novel, to be set in Miami, to Little, Brown & Company. People involved in the negotiations said on Wednesday that Mr. Wolfe’s advance for the new book was close to $7 million. . . .

“Two years ago when I got the idea of doing a book on immigration, people would say, ‘Oh, that’s fascinating,’ and then they would go to sleep standing up like a horse. Since then the subject has become a little more exciting, and in Miami it’s not only exciting, it’s red hot.” . . .

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