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Hooking Up is a collection of essays and short stories by American author Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. , known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling United States author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s....
, 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
John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
, Mailer
Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an United States novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S....
 and Irving
John Irving

John Winslow Irving is an United States novelist and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978....
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Hooking Up is a collection of essays and short stories by American author Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. , known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling United States author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s....
, 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
John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
, Mailer
Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an United States novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S....
 and Irving
John Irving

John Winslow Irving is an United States novelist and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978....
.

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 Noyce

    Robert Norton Noyce , nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip....
     and William Shockley
    William Shockley

    William Bradford Shockley was a Kingdom of Great Britain-born United States physicist and inventor.Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics....
    ; especially comparing Noyce, founder of Intel and a graduate of Grinnell College
    Grinnell College

    Grinnell College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Grinnell, Iowa, Iowa, U.S. with a strong tradition of social activism....
    , with Josiah Grinnell, its founder.
  • Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill
  • - essay by Tom Wolfe (Forbes, 1996) contains profile of E. O. Wilson
    E. O. Wilson

    Edward Osborne Wilson is an United States biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology....
    .


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
    The New Yorker

    The New Yorker is an United States magazine that publishes reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans....
     editor William Shawn
    William Shawn

    William Shawn was an United magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987....
  • 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