''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
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth ...
,
Norman Mailer
Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, 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
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited wit ...
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:
**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