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.

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