Tom Wolfe, pioneering ‘New Journalist,’ dead at 88 - The Boston Globe

Tom Wolfe, pioneering ‘New Journalist,’ dead at 88 - The Boston Globe: Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full,” has died. He was 88.