''Hooking Up'' is a collection of essays and a novella by American author

Tom Wolfe Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)Some sources say 1931; ''The New York Times'' and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and was an American author and journalist widely ...

, 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 John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of ''The World According to ...

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 William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointl ...

; especially comparing Noyce, founder of

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...

and a graduate of

Grinnell College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell has the fifth highest endowment-to-stu ...

, 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 Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, entomologist and writer. According to David Attenborough, Wilson was the world's leading expert in his specialty of myrmecology, the study of an ...

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 ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' editor

William Shawn William Shawn ('' né'' Chon; August 31, 1907 – December 8, 1992) was an American magazine editor who edited ''The New Yorker'' from 1952 until 1987. Early life and education Shawn was born William Chon on August 31, 1907, in Chicago, Illino ...

*Lost in the Whichy Thickets *Afterword: High in the Saddle

Publication data

*Tom Wolfe, ''Hooking Up'' (2000), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover: **2001 Picador trade paperback: **2001 Picador mass market paperback:

References

{{Tom Wolfe 2000 non-fiction books Essay collections Essay collections by Tom Wolfe Books by Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux books