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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...more

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Published October 12th 2001 by Picador (first published 1989)

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May 16, 2008 W.B. rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Technophiles, anybody really

Recommended to W.B. by: the dollar store

This is cobbled together creation, rather a literary Frankenstein's monster, a pastiche of various essays with some fiction thrown in, but it's actually a very rewarding read. You don't have to like the man or share his values to appreciate his ability to understand history's machinations, to trace trends and cultural tendencies with a rarely rivaled acumen. I don't share many of his values, and do find him to be an unremittent elitist (which is always an embarrassment for readers) but I still f...more

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Nov 12, 2012 Matt Chisholm rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

his was my first Wolfe anything. I had seen several of his works lying around collecting dust on friends bookshelves, and had often wondered,"Who is this man with the ostentatious covers and 90s charisma?" Turns out he is somewhat of a relic and somewhat of a genius. Like most carnal 20-somethings, I picked this one up because I was engaged by the prospect of an explanation of the process of temporary sexual desire. Instead, I got a narrative that weaved in and out of the cybertropolis of Y2K le...more his was my first Wolfe anything. I had seen several of his works lying around collecting dust on friends bookshelves, and had often wondered,"Who is this man with the ostentatious covers and 90s charisma?" Turns out he is somewhat of a relic and somewhat of a genius. Like most carnal 20-somethings, I picked this one up because I was engaged by the prospect of an explanation of the process of temporary sexual desire. Instead, I got a narrative that weaved in and out of the cybertropolis of Y2K leftovers and Jerry Springer hangovers. It's not that Hooking Up is bad, in fact, it's quite good, it's just...dusty, fantastically 90s writing. Wolfe starts out strong telling the tale of Silicon Valley via a midwestern states dowsing of homespun Americana. The comparison to Josiah Grinnell, the coiner of the sternum lifting "Go West, young man," to Intel's brilliant business/physicist Robert Joyce is a tired cliche at best. Wolfe makes the argument that the success of the tech industry was based on the lingering residue of "Dissenting Protestantism" fighting against the elitist stigma of the Eastern United States. But, Wolfe's biting diction and playful tone allow for the insurgence of the technical age amidst all the limp-wrist elitists hanging around in Humanities departments (I am one by the way). For all of his modern American apparatus drum-banging, Wolfe goes wildly off base by suggesting that the "ivory tower" fields of history, sociology, english, etc. are all boiling in a stew of remnant Marxism. Come on, there's plenty of capitalism here, what with all the competing and throat crunching for some sort of subject that hasn't been written about. Ok, so the Humanities is sinking under the weight of its own libraries, but there is a freshness in the air that is moving the tweed mildew out of our crumbling marble buildings. Surprise to Wolfe, however, the movement is not flamboyant or cutting edge. Good history today is patient, human-centered, and rich in overlapping methodologies. By lumping all of the liberal arts into a block of deconstruction, Wolfe failed to see what was coming as an attache to the estrangement caused by our technical enterprise: a quest for identity. And I would argue, most emphatically, that the past has the most to say about that one. Cue: ivory tower. "Ambush at Fort Bragg" was a giant disappointment for me. It seemed like Wolfe was trying to hold some sort of pep rally for primetime journalism that no one really gave a shit about in the 90s. A whole short story about a murder of a gay person in the military by two erstwhile "skinhead" rednecks? Ughickphargh!!!! The whole plot was so Ricki Lake in the worst sort of 90s way, and still, this was to be the example of the great opportunity of current American journalism at the turn of the millenium? We got it all in "Ambush": nudey porno half asians, gay murders, big busted middle-aged female anchors, a sweaty palmed, emasculated whiner, and a giant criticism of the American military. I'll give Wolfe some credit because this was written in 2000, but I remember that year I was entranced by the emerging internet apparatus governed by Napster, AIM, and ebay. What Wolfe gave us was a last ditch pilot for the Jerry Springer show. Wolfe's other autobiography about laying out William Shawn to the triumph of the 1960s journalistic world was an equal match of tedious brazenness. Wolfe let us know full well how awesome he USED to be, back then, you know, when newspapers were cool and such, and people cared about editors. Talk about "tiny mummies," Wolfe became one as soon as he published this in Hooking Up. Sure, it's an interesting story about bringing The New Yorker to its knees, and it's actually quite funny at parts, but I don't see any real purpose in it being in this volume other than to prop Wolfe up as some bare-knuckel bad-ass with a real life typewriter! Anyways, this book is good for one reason only: Wolfe is an unbelievably good writer, and actually, he's a pretty sweet bad-ass too. Hooking Up seems to try too hard to make those points, but after all of the "Hey guys, I'm Tom Wolfe, and I'm really good, have been for awhile," one is convinced that this eccentric, pompous man, is a magician with words. So, I'll read other stuff by him-maybe even a novel, but I suppose from here on out I will be looking over my shoulder to guard against an Icabod Crane in the form of Wolfe who's lost his head because it exploded from egotism. 61 Respectable(less)

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Dec 23, 2008 mark rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this collection of essays and one short story, but it is not Wolfe at his finest. I noticed more than I had with his earlier works just how US-centric his viewpoints are and how little he criticizes the country, specifically in its foreign policies. I'm thinking of the pieces "Hooking Up" and "In The Land of The Rococo Marxists," both of which are very entertaining and make some excellent observations, but in which he overstates his case. Of course, that is Wolfe's style. "Sorry But Yo...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Mikey B. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A turn of the millennium book by Mr. Wolfe, in which he overstates that the U.S. is the center of the world (as Britain was 100 years ago). One also ponders how much Mr. Wolfe would have changed his outlook after Sept. 11/2001. To some extent there is a bit of prudery and anti-liberalism in this book – or perhaps a lack of tolerance in his tone.

There seems to be an underlying glorification of Middle America – and Middle American values (the work ethic, religion). But regardless, Mr. Wolfe is an...more

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great collection. the novella is so-so, but the essays are generally fantastic (not to mention thoroughly researched and delightfully reported, as wolfe's work so often is), covering a range of intermingling topics, including science and technology, art and literature, and the trend of late-century american thinking toward the absurdly refined. this last point crops up again and again and comes to fruition in "rococo marxists" and "my three stooges," where wolfe dismantles the tired dogma of pos...more

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Oct 27, 2011 Kelly added it

Anyone with a child in school knows the signs all too well. I am intrigued by the parents now invest--the craze began about 1990- in psychologists who diagnose their children as suffering from a defect known as attention deficit disorder, or ADD. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether this "disorder" is an actual, physical, neurological condition or not, but neither does anybody else in this early stage of neuroscience. The symptoms of this supposed malady are always the same. The child, or...more Anyone with a child in school knows the signs all too well. I am intrigued by the parents now invest--the craze began about 1990- in psychologists who diagnose their children as suffering from a defect known as attention deficit disorder, or ADD. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether this "disorder" is an actual, physical, neurological condition or not, but neither does anybody else in this early stage of neuroscience. The symptoms of this supposed malady are always the same. The child, or rather, the boy- 49 out of 50 cases are boys- fidgets around in school, slides off his chair, doesn't pay attention, distracts his classmates during class, and preforms poorly. In an earlier era he would have been pressured to pay attention, work harder, show some self-discipline. To parents caught up in the new intellectual climate of the 1990's, that approach seems cruel, because my little boys problem is... hes wired wrong! The poor little tyke- the fix has been in since birth! Invariably the rents complain, "all he wants to do is sit in front of the television set and watch cartoons and play sega genesis. for how long? "How long? Hours at a time." Hours at a time, as any young neuroscientist will tell you, that boy may have a problem, but its not an attention defecit. Nevertheless, all across America we have the spectacle of an entire generation of little boys, by the tens of thousands being dosed up on ADD's magic bullet of choice, Ritalin, the Ciba-Genera Corporations brand name for the stimulant methylphenidate. I first encountered Ritalin in 1966, when i was in San Francisco doing research for a book on the psychadelic or hippie movement. A certain species of the genus hippe was known as the speed freak, and a certain strain of the speed freak was known as the Ritalin Head. The Ritalin Heads loved Ritalin. You'd see them in the throes of absolute Ritalin raptures-- not a wiggle, not a peep.. they would sit engrossed in anything at all... a manhole cover, their own palm wrinkles... indefinately... through shoulda been mealtime after mealtime ... through raging insomnias.. Pure methylphenidate nirvana.. from 1990-1995 CIBA-gereras sales of Ritalin rose 600%; and not because of the appetites of subsets of the species speed freak in SF, either. it was because an entire generation of American boys, from the best private schools of the NE to the worst sludge-trap public schools of LA and San Diego, was now strung out on methylphenidate, diligently doled out to them every day by their connection, the school nurse! America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! the human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

the most popular study currently- it is still being featured on JV news shows- is David Lykken + Avke Tellegen's study at the U of Minnesota of 2000 twins that shows, according to these 2 evolutionary psychologists, that an individual's happiness is largely genetic. some people are hardwired to be happy and some are not. success (or failure) in matters of love, money, reputation, or power is transient stuff; you soon settle back down (or up) to the level of happiness you were born with genetically.

-the squeaking of gas pedals before the bumper cars start

-scooping poop with a beach bucket and shovel.
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Aug 15, 2010 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

Tom Wolfe's Hooking Up is a collection of essays on a variety of themes which he explores more fully in I am Charlotte Simmons: American Exceptionalism vs. colonial apologetics; the morphing of the date into the "hook-up" and other interesting modifications in American sexual mores; and most entertainingly his response to being called "not real literature" by Updike, Mailer, and Irving.

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Jun 05, 2013 John rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history-biography

I recently found this book in my stacks and checked the reviews on Amazon to see if I should invest the time in reading it. The reviews were all over the place... some loved it, a lot hated it, many gave it mediocre marks. After reading it I see why - there's something somewhere in "Hooking Up" to piss off everyone. I enjoyed most of the book immensely.

My infuriating moment came near the end of the 3rd section as Wolf describes the hyper-reaction to E. O. Wilson's groundbreaking work in the fiel...more I recently found this book in my stacks and checked the reviews on Amazon to see if I should invest the time in reading it. The reviews were all over the place... some loved it, a lot hated it, many gave it mediocre marks. After reading it I see why - there's something somewhere in "Hooking Up" to piss off everyone. I enjoyed most of the book immensely.

My infuriating moment came near the end of the 3rd section as Wolf describes the hyper-reaction to E. O. Wilson's groundbreaking work in the field he (Wilson) named Sociobiology. I understand the controversy and why, but towards the end of Wolf's treatment describing the controversy Wolf uses the name of Michael Behe in the same breath with E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins. Behe is the most credentialed American scientific spokesman for "intelligent design" movement which is the current purient-speak for Biblical Creationism, since the Supreme Court outlawed teaching creationism with the Edwards v Aguilera decision of 25 years ago. Behe is an example of how tenure can come back to bite a respected university in the ass - to the point where Lehigh University has posted a disclaimer on their website effectively saying.... "Hey ... we're sorry but we gave this idiot tenure before he went crazy and starting advocating creationism and now we can't fire him." Behe is a joke as are all advocates of creationism-intelligent design myth and once you take the discussion out of the political arena and put it in a court of law where evidence actually matters, the intelligent designers get there asses handed to them --- see "The Devil in Dover" by Lauri Lebo or "40 Days and 40 Nights" by Matthew Chapman or the excellent NOVA documentary "Judgement Day." So I took a bit of an objection to Wolf using Behe's name in the same thought as Wilson and Dawkins (who are paragons of actual modern science).

The books consists of about 10 sections or stories (only one is fiction). In the preface, entitled Hooking Up, Wolfe describes American life at the turn of the 21st century. Except for his portrayal of the common working man Wolf's portrayal was accurate and amusing.

The 2nd section, Two Young Men Who Went West, I found to be the most entertaining and enlightening - thru the story of Bob Noyce, Wolf tells the tale of the American semi-conductor industry in the silicon valley.

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Aug 01, 2007 Ani rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people interested in entrepreneurship and the origins of the technology industry in the US

I think the best piece in this book is the first one, a fascinating story detailing the impact of Congregationalism and the state of Iowa on the birth of Silicon Valley and really, modern corporate culture in the US. You can see the seeds of the atrociously long and out-of-touch novel I Am Charlotte Simmons in the piece called "Hooking Up," which is much better than the novel that it generated.

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Jan 16, 2013 David Nichols rated it 4 of 5 stars

This anthology contains several noteworthy or entertaining pieces: a short story, "Ambush at Fort Bragg," that didn't make it into Wolfe's 1998 novel A MAN IN FULL; an essay on Teilhard de Chardin, Marshall McLuhan, and the Internet; another piece on the founding of Intel; Wolfe's turn-of-the-century review of Frederick Hart, the sculptor who created the servicemen's statue at the Vietnam Memorial; and two dated but amusing critiques of the NEW YORKER from 1965. Unfortunately, it also contains g...more

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Dec 30, 2008 Tonya Wertman rated it 2 of 5 stars

At least Wolfe gives the reader notice in his preface that this book is basically a rambling free association of his thoughts on the current status of religion, morality, social conscience, transdisciplinary education, and neuroscientific theories in the US.

The title is certainly misleading as discussions on "hooking up" and other sexual mores occupy only a small section at the book's beginning. The vast majority of the book is a detailed account of the development of the computer and certain si...more

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Dec 13, 2008 Dave rated it 2 of 5 stars

If you like Tom Wolfe like Tom Wolfe likes Tom Wolfe, you will like "Hooking Up." If you think Tom Wolfe is ok, like I think Tom Wolfe is ok, you will probably think this book is ok.

My biggest complaint is that "Hooking Up" only appears in the first essay(?) and only there in a convoluted, confusing, dissatisfying way. The book improves after that providing some interesting biographies of people that I'd never heard about before, such as William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker and Bob Noyce, a...more

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Jul 08, 2012 Patrick rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I give this book a 2.5 for his Silicon Valley piece and his short story the rest of the book was just not interesting.

As an information specialist, I think Wolfe is on point. I especially liked his piece on how Silicon Valley borrowed its cultural ethic from the Protestant Congregationalist ethic but I do not like when he starts criticizing other society such as academia or fellow news people. It makes him sound like a bitter old man with a grudge against certain parts of America. His fictional...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Mari Stroud rated it 5 of 5 stars

Would get five stars based on its blistering (and hysterically funny) skewering of evolutionary psychology alone, but gets better still once Wolfe moves on to his deep disdain for the glittering literati and pretend intellectuals who think that disdain and a handful of buzzwords half-understood from Sociology 101 makes them deep, and that their inaccessibility is a symptom of declining intelligence within the public rather than, you know, fuck-awful writing. And yet through it all he remains str...more

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Jul 19, 2009 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars

Since this book is a potpourri of fiction and non-fiction, there was lots to learn about literary style, literary in-fighting and rivalries, and how briliantly Wolfe can write in dialect. There is fascinating information about the genesis of Silicon Valley and Intel (especially about Robert Noyce) and about the workplace culture therein. The chapter on Teilhard de Chardin was beautifully written---he was an almost mythical figure in my college years----the scientist, theologian, priest whose ide...more

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Nov 06, 2011 Crystal rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: rejects

Had to be honest and say "I didn't like it." That should in no way detract from the mastery of Tom Wolfe's writing, and if you like him and you want to know a lot about stuff that happened way back (like everything you never wanted to know about The New Yorker in the '60s), by all means take a gander. There was a lengthy essay about the germination of Silicon Valley, but I found inaccuracies in the depiction. My favorite part of the book was his novella, "Ambush at Fort Bragg," about "ambush" jo...more

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Jul 07, 2008 Jessica Blevins rated it 2 of 5 stars

A collection of essays and one novella by Tom Wolfe, covering a wide range of topics, from art history to neurotechnology to literature. It was ok, but not great. My favorite essays were "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died" (about philosophy, religion and neurotechnology...interesting bits on Nietzche's predictions for the future after the "intellectual elite" agreed that religion was no longer a viable belief) and "In the Land of the Rococo Marxists" (interesting downloading of social structures th...more

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Apr 07, 2008 Lars Guthrie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm probably only going less than all the way because Wolfe so joyfully savages many of my beliefs and predispositions. That makes me resent that he is so damned fun to read. After reading a story in the SF Chronicle about his upcoming book on neuroscience and language (and I'm interested in that for lots of reasons--right now I'm reading Stuart Shanker and Stanley Greenspan's "The First Idea"), which referred to Wolfe's "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died," I got this book just to read that essay,...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Ken rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: no one

It started ok,and his thoughts on silicon valley were interesting ,but then it just became awful. He seems to have a real problem with working class people taking vacations. He tells us Freud and Marx are finished.There is no class warfare only a failure of the poor to work harder. The last half of the book consists of filler, complaints about Updike , Mailer, and Irving failing to laud his work,and lastly a celebration of his one attempt to to fight the establishment by writing a parody of th N...more

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Oct 04, 2012 Lil Sparrow rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: america, short-stories-or-essays

I had my reservations when my father started pushing this book on me, and I'm still not sure he should go around recommending this to every niece and nephew of his, but it was definitely worth the read. The short stoy is questionable, but the essays were exceedingly well researched and well written. They were a pleasure to read and rather thought provoking, if somewhat dated. I'll be keeping an eye out for his older work.

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May 31, 2009 Fran rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: literate essay readers, fans of Tom Wolfe

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I have been a Tom Wolfe fan since the late 60's, and I was SO DISAPPOINTED in his HORRIBLE "Charlotte Simmons". You can see parallels between it and the essay that titles this collection. But thank goodness this collection of several essays and one novella restores my admiration and faith in Tom. In fact, some of the essays are almost luminous, and they certainly are illuminating!!!! THANK YOU TOM WOLFE!

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Dec 06, 2009 Peter Steele rated it 2 of 5 stars

Tom Wolfe is normally one of my favorite writers but this book is hopefully a "one off" miss.I found it to be boring and basically an insider's tour of the book publishing industry. I generally enjoy his analyses of foriegn lifestyles (Kesey's bus, the art galleries, NASA Pilots, college campus life, etc.) but I just couldn't get a toe in the door with this work.

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Apr 20, 2011 Julie rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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 h...more

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Jan 09, 2010 Mary Zeman rated it 3 of 5 stars

I wonder what Tom Wolfe thinks of writers/authors now in 2010 almost 10 years after he wrote this book. I wonder if he read the NY Times book review last weekend about the mentions of sex in books linked with the generation/political correctness of the writer-pretty interesting stuff. I liked what he had to say about movies taking over as novels for the younger generation. I think that is true...along with video games and other electronic devices..it's sad. I also wonder if his stuff is availabl...more

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Dec 05, 2007 Maggie rated it 1 of 5 stars

i have so far read electric koolaid acid test as well as bonfire of the vanities by tom wolfe. after reading up to the novella about fort bragg i felt seriously let down by an author i previously considered one of my favorites. it seems he has abondoned his more objective (obviously not totally objective) journalistic style and decided to hop up onto his soapbox for a while. i found his essays in this collection opinionated and a little too patriotic for me. i did semi-enjoy the novella near the...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Leslie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Collection of mostly non-fiction essays. Fascinating stuff about the 1st guys (one went west from MIT) getting the microchip industry going in California. Other sound essays about American culture changing over the years. There is one great novella within "Ambush at Ft. Bragg"

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Feb 06, 2013 Douglas Tatelman rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a ten year old collection of essays. The only ones that feel dated are the pre-9/11 articles on America's place in the world. The rest offer a great insight into Mr. Wolfe's thinking as a writer.

For example, I finally learned what the "Back to Blood" title means. I also got a great explanation of how he likes to construct his books in scenes that have a lot of action, but also an open window to the characters thoughts and misgivings.

I also can see that he based the reporter in Back to Bl...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Derek Baldwin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Now that I'm a grumpy old fogey it's especially enjoyable reading Mr Wolfe's sneering essays on yoof culture and other modern superficialities. Possibly his best collection, or perhaps it's just that I've come to see things more the way he does as the years go by.

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Aug 04, 2009 John Conolley rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I hadn't read Tom Wolfe in years. Boy, it was good to be back. I love his stuff--his nonfiction stuff--and I loved this book. I especially liked the two old articles at the end where he gave The New Yorker down the road.

Fun, fun, fun.

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Dec 04, 2008 Craig rated it 4 of 5 stars

Worth reading just to learn how Tom Wolfe provoked J.D. Salinger into breaking radio silence. Though Updike, Mailer, and Irving lovers might want to give it a pass. (Hint: the book contains an essay titled."My Three Stooges.")

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