Hooking Up [Paperback]

InHooking Up, Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast observing 'the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000.' From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience; from his legendary profile of William Shawn, editor ofThe New Yorker(first published in 1965), to a remarkable portrait of Bob Noyce, the man who invented Silicon Valley, Tom Wolfe the master of reportage and satire returns in vintage form.

Tom Wolfe(1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics asThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,The Right Stuff, andRadical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novelsThe Bonfire of the Vanities,A Man in Full, andI Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles forThe Washington Post, theNew York Herald Tribune,Esquire, andNew Yorkmagazine, and is credited with coining the term, The Me Decade.

Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.

At heart he is and always will be a terrific reporter.Hooking Upprovides a great introduction to Wolfe the nonfiction stylist: the peerless portraitist, the contrarian social critic and the literary bomb thrower. The book's title is a sexual metaphor, but in Wolfe's hands, it means making connections among the culture's disparate corners. And nobody hooks up better than he does. lc5