Hooking Up
# Hooking Up

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, Norman 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 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: ISBN 0-374-10382-8
   * 2001 Picador trade paperback: ISBN 0-312-42023-4
   * 2001 Picador mass market paperback: ISBN 0-330-48611-X
