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

Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...

, 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....

, Mailer

Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American 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 American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...

.

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...
  
   and William Shockley
  William Shockley
  William Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American 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.Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s...
  
  ; especially comparing Noyce, founder of Intel and a graduate of Grinnell College
  Grinnell College
  Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. known for its strong tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa 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
  E. O. Wilson
  Edward Osborne Wilson is an American biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants....
  
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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 American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
  editor William Shawn
  William Shawn
  William Shawn was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987.-Education and Early Life:...
  
  
• 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