HOOKING UP

'''Hooking Up''' is a collection of essays and short stories by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were published in earlier form in popular magazines.
The essays cover a number of diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction, along with snipes at his contemporaries Updike, Mailer, and Irving.

Contents

Contents

Hooking Up

The Human Beast

Vita Robusta, Ars Anorexica

Ambush at Fort Bragg: A Novella

The ''New Yorker'' Affair

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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 – a profile of Robert Noyce and William Shockley

★ 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 Roccoco 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'' editor William Shawn

★ Lost in the Whichy Thickets

★ Afterword: High in the Saddle

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★ Tom Wolfe, ''Hooking Up'' (2000), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover: ISBN 0374103828

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★ 2001 Picador trade paperback: ISBN 0-312-42023-4

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★ 2001 Picador mass market paperback: ISBN 0-330-48611-X