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In Hooking 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 of The 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.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1989
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304 pages, Paperback
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October 12, 2001 by Picador
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9780312420239
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0312420234
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English
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Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies. Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the ...
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Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.
Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.
He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tom Wolfe is also famous for coining and defining the term fiction-absolute.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/tomwolfe
Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.
He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tom Wolfe is also famous for coining and defining the term fiction-absolute.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/tomwolfe
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This made me laugh out loud a number of times while listening - with Tom Wolfe himself reading. I am not as familiar with Wolfe as I should be. I will make sure that changes soon. This seemingly random collection of shorts is all over the map, from teen angst to genetics/neuroscience and the invention on Silicon Valley. A reporter at heart, Wolfe's satire is engaging.
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Oh my gooooooddd this book was boring. Please be forewarned - this book has nothing to do with delving further into societal rituals, like dating in the 2000s, as the title "Hooking Up" might imply. This book is a mishmash of dry essays on the evolution of technology, a silly short story (there was a reason it was cut out of A Man in Full, like how deleted scene extras on a DVD always kinda suck), and then a section on his literary wars with famous authors and The New Yorker. I remember liking his fiction, I should probably stick to that.
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This is very well written, and I feel like it might have been more relevant in 2000 than it is in 2020. But I just couldn't get into the "get off my lawn"-ness of it.
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The birth of Silicon Valley is particularly entertaining.
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In which Tom Wolfe at his most son of a bitch purposely misreads modern culture to promote himself as the smartest man in the US. He tells us that an intellectual is someone who is an expert in one thing, but only talks about other things. His PhD is in American Studies, but certainly that gives him the expertise to talk about cognitive neuroscience, biology, and sociology.
Like a lot of reactionary scholars, he doesn't understand much about post-structuralism, so he attacks the version of it he's created in his head.
Like a lot of reactionary scholars, he doesn't understand much about post-structuralism, so he attacks the version of it he's created in his head.
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wow, who knew that tom wolfe was so stupid? among things he completely misunderstands within these essays are: marxism (numerous times), nietzche, des cartes, judith butler, susan sontag, marshal mcluhan, noam chomsky, richard dawkins and memes, the bell curve, and basic linguistic development of slang (as well as completely wrongheaded use and appropriation of that slang). there was a time when wolfe was a very good journalist (before the '80s), and there was a time when wolfe was a very good novelist (for exactly one novel in the '80s) but this collection makes it clear to me that his talents have very severely atrophied; his detached and narrow view of society (---he makes the point multiple times that there is no more working class in the United States because even plumbers can have third wives and plan for vacations in the Caribbean...) has rendered any sort of the naturalism that he pretends to completely and utterly meaningless. i am stupider for having read this book.
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Extremely enjoyable collection of later Wolfe essays, as well as a novella. The only essays not "recent" were first published in the mid 1960s, which involve his satirical take on The New Yorker. Particularly liked the essay dealing with the origin of Silicone Valley.
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