Tom Wolfe on his new book,Back to Blood

‘Fourteenth floor,’ says the liveried doorman, walking me across the lobby of a grand old Art Deco building on one of Manhattan’s most expensive streets. What’s the apartment number? I ask. ‘Just push 14, you’ll be fine,’ he says, showing me into the wood-panelled lift. Ah, but of course. Tom Wolfe has been picking up…