Giving Good Weight
by John McPhee | 
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
by Susan Orlean | 
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
by Joan Didion | 
Living Out Loud
by Anna Quindlen |
The Devil Problem
by David Remnick | 
The Ecstasy of Influence
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Halls of Fame
by John D'Agata | 
Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan | 
Step Across This Line
by Salman Rushdie | 
Pieces of the Frame
by John McPhee | 
Table of Contents
by John McPhee | 
After Henry
by Joan Didion | 
Both Flesh and Not
by David Foster Wallace |
American Stories
by Calvin Trillin | 
White Girls
by Hilton Als |
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.