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]

Hooking Up
First edition
AuthorTom Wolfe
LanguageEnglish
GenreNew Journalism
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
2000
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages293
ISBN0-374-10382-8
813.54
LC ClassPS3573.O526 H66 2000

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

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Hooking Up

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  • Hooking Up: What Life was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World – contemporary teenage promiscuity.

The Human Beast

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Vita Robusta, Ars Anorexica

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  • 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

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  • Ambush at Fort Bragg – a fictional investigative television program delves into military harassment of gay people.

The New Yorker Affair

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ Wolfe, Tom (2000). Hooking Up. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374103828.