Hooking Up
{{short description|2000 collection of essays by Tom Wolfe}}
{{Other uses|Hook-up (disambiguation)}}
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| name = Hooking Up
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| image = HookingUp.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = Tom Wolfe
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = New Journalism
| publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux
| release_date = 2000
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages = 293
| isbn = 0-374-10382-8
| dewey= 813.54
| congress= PS3573.O526 H66 2000
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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
- [http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/WolfeSoulDied.php 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}}