Hooking Up

Hooking Up is a collection of essays and short stories 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 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
• 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