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.[1]
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
- 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 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 (2000), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover: ISBN 0-374-10382-8
References
- ^ Wolfe, Tom (2000). Hooking Up. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374103828.
