title: Hooking Up
text: # 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
  