Hooking Up
Hooking Up is a collection of essays and a novella by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were earlier published in popular magazines.
The essays cover diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction, along with snipes at his contemporaries John Updike, Norman Mailer and John 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
- - essay by Tom Wolfe 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 gay people.
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, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover:
- *2001 Picador trade paperback:
- *2001 Picador mass market paperback: