Best selling author Tom Wolfe is set to take on Miami. A documentary chronicling the research behind the writing will also be released: Tom Wolfe film follows master satirist in Miami http://www.amazon.com/Back-Blood-No...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337977303&sr=1-1 Publication Date: October 23, 2012 A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestor's life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin' little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the 'hoods, "de-skilled" conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, "spectators" at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that night's orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an "Active Adult" condo, and a nest of shady Russians. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, BACK TO BLOOD is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.
Tom Wolfe to kick off book fair Nov. 11 http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/21/3014078/tom-wolfe-to-kick-off-book-fair.html Back to Blood... threatens to do for Miami what The Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York in 1987 and A Man in Full did for Atlanta, Georgia, in 1998 – namely threaten to reveal the simmering racial tensions, political corruption and sexual and economic finagling to be found at every level of the sun-kiss'd Floridan metropolis. There will be trouble. There will be raucous discussion. There will be blood. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/tom-wolfe-americas-allseeing-eye-8139988.html
Curbed Miami has an excerpt: http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2012/10/10/tom-wolfe-on-art-basel-an-excerpt-from-back-to-blood.php