Tom Wolfe, 1931-2018

by Sean NelsonTom Wolfe was more famous for his suits than for his sentences in the end, which was an irony he might not have appreciated, but not one he would have missed.Theo Wargo/Getty Images
Tom Wolfe died yesterday.He was either 87 or 88, depending on which headline you trust.This is the kind of discrepancy that he could have easily riffed on for at least a couple of pages, back when he was still writing that particular mode.That particular mode is what they and we still call New Journalis