Hooking Up

Hooking Up

"Hooking Up" is a collection of essays and short stories by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were published in earlier form in popular magazines.

The essays cover a number of diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction, along with snipes at his contemporaries Updike, Mailer, and Irving.

Contents

Hooking Up

*Hooking Up: What Life was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World – contemporary teenage promiscuity.

The Human Beast

*Two Young Men Who Went West – profiles of Robert Noyce and William Shockley; especially comparing Noyce, founder of Intel and a graduate of Grinnell College, with Josiah Grinnell, its founder.
*Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill
* [http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/WolfeSoulDied.php Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died] - essay by Tom Wolfe (Forbes, 1996) contains profile of E. O. Wilson.

Vita Robusta, Ars Anorexica

*In the Land of the Rococo Marxists
*The Invisible Artist
*The Great Relearning
*My Three Stooges –Wolfe's castigation of Mailer, Updike, and Irving

Ambush at Fort Bragg: A Novella

*Ambush at Fort Bragg – a fictional investigative television program delves into military harassment of gays

The "New Yorker" Affair

*Foreword: Murderous Gutter Journalism
*Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead! – 1965 profile of "The New Yorker" editor William Shawn
*Lost in the Whichy Thickets
*Afterword: High in the Saddle

Publication data

*Tom Wolfe, "Hooking Up" (2000), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover: ISBN 0374103828
**2001 Picador trade paperback: ISBN 0-312-42023-4
**2001 Picador mass market paperback: ISBN 0-330-48611-X


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