One of the more anticipated laydown dates of 1998 was November 10, for Tom Wolfe's latest book, A Man in Full. But when Time's cover story was scheduled to run a week earlier and many key reviews were planned to appear November 8, Farrar, Straus &Giroux changed the on-sale date to November 6. Booksellers should receive their direct shipments from FSG no later than November 5 and are being instructed not to sell books before the on-sale date. PW's starred, boxed review next week notes that Wolfe's latest "is a major advance on The Bonfire of the Vanities in its range, power and compassion, while retaining all of that book's breathless contemporaneity and readability." Bonfire, Wolfe's first novel, was among the top 15 hardcover fiction bestsellers for both 1987 (publication was November of that year) and 1988, and had a 55-week run on PW's weekly charts. Hardcover copies sold in those first two years totaled more than 850,000. All this bodes well for the new book, which has a 1.2 million -copy first printing. Media for the first week of publication includes 60 Minutes, David Letterman, all three national network morning shows, Charlie Rose and NPR's All Things Considered. Wolfe will be on tour for much of November and December, taking time off for Thanksgiving and Christmas. And Don Imus is already plugging the book on his radio show. All that's left to conjecture about this definite bestseller is: Will it land on the national charts in the #1 slot its first week out (we bet yes) and will it win the fiction National Book Award prize (we'll be very surprised if it d sn't).