Hooking Up

{{short description|2000 collection of essays by Tom Wolfe}} {{Other uses|Hook-up (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox book  | name = Hooking Up | title_orig = | translator = | image = HookingUp.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Tom Wolfe | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | 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 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''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.<ref name="hookingup" />

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}}

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