by Tom Wolfe · Farrar Straus & Giroux · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224061193
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«Hooking Up» is Tom Wolfe's collection of essays and fiction, published in 2000 by Farrar Straus & Giroux in hardback (308 pages, in English).
It brings together reportage, essays and stories in which Tom Wolfe observes with irony American society at the turn of the millennium: urban culture, money, politics and everyday customs. Among the pieces, «My Three Stooges» stands out, with attacks on Updike, Mailer and Irving, alongside others that mix journalism, fiction and satire.
The cover subtitle is «Essays and Stories».
For readers of literary journalism, cultural criticism and satirical essays, with an interest in American society at the turn of the millennium.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
