| Description |
293 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Hooking up. Hooking up: what life was like at the turn of the second millennium: an American's world -- The human beast. Two young men who went west -- Digibabble, fairy dust, and the human anthill -- Sorry, but your soul just died -- Vita robusta, ars anorexica. In the land of the rococo Marxists -- The invisible artist -- The great relearning -- My three stooges -- Ambush at Fort Bragg: a novella. Ambush at Fort Bragg -- 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 -- Lost in the whichy thickets -- Afterword: High in the saddle |
| Summary |
"Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, chronicling everything from the sexual manners and mores of teenagers...to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves, thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience...to the reasons why, at the dawn of a new millenium, no one is celebrating the second American Century." "Printed here in its entirety is Ambush at Fort Bragg, a novella about sting TV which has prefigured with eerie accuracy three cases of scandal and betrayal that have lately exploded in the press, as well as Wolfe's forecasts ("My Three Stooges," "The Invisible Artist") of radical changes about to sweep the arts." |
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"Hooking Up is a chronicle of the here and now, but for dessert it closes with the legendary, never-before-reprinted pieces about The New Yorker and its famously reclusive editor, William Shawn, which early on helped win Wolfe his matchless reputation for reportorial bravura, dead-on insight, and stylistic legerdemain - qualities everywhere evident in this gloriously no-holds-barred, un-put-downable new book."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published: Jonathan Cape, 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140537
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| LC no. |
00058748 |
| ISBN |
0374103828 (alk. paper) |
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