Hooking Up
 First edition | |
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | New Journalism |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 293 |
| ISBN | 0-374-10382-8 |
| 813.54 | |
| LC Class | PS3573.O526 H66 2000 |
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.[1]
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.
Contents
[edit]Hooking Up
[edit]- Hooking Up: What Life was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World – contemporary teenage promiscuity.
The Human Beast
[edit]- Two Young Men Who Went West – profiles of Robert Noyce 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Ambush at Fort Bragg – a fictional investigative television program delves into military harassment of gay people.
The New Yorker Affair
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up (2000), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardcover: ISBN 0-374-10382-8
- 2001 Picador trade paperback: ISBN 0-312-42023-4
- 2001 Picador mass market paperback: ISBN 0-330-48611-X
References
[edit]- ^ Wolfe, Tom (2000). Hooking Up. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374103828.