Hooking Up ranges all over the modern world, from an update on the Sexual manners and mores of teenagers to an investigation of the fundamental ways in which our lives and self-perceptions have changed,living as we do in a modern world of genetic engineering and neuroscience.There are pieces on 'sting T.V.' as well as forecasts of radical changes sweeping the world of the arts. A glorious, questioning, memorable book,Hooking Up shows Tom Wolfe at the very top of his form.

Hooking Up

Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second

Millennium: An American’s World / 3

The Human Baest

Two Young Men Who Went West / 17

Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill / 66

Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died / 89

Vita Robusta,Ars Anorexica

In the Land of the Rococo Marxists / 113

The Invisible Artist / 131

The Great Relearning / 140

My Three Stooges / 145

Ambush At Fort A Novella

Ambush at Fort Bragg / 175

The New Yorker Affair

Foreword: Murderous Gutter loumalism / 249

Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street’s

Land of the Walking Dead/255

Lost in the Whiehy Thickets / 268

Aftenword: High in the Saddle / 288