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' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism and 'Ambush art at Fort Bragg' his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV. Funny often savagely so hard-hitting and wise Wolfe remains a unique master-chronicler of America and its future.

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.