Hooking up

Description:

"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.". "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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Geschlechterbeziehung,  Sozialverhalten,  Kulturleben,  Youth,  Sexual behavior,  Conduct of life,  Large type books,  Essays (single author),  Fiction, short stories (single author),  Essays,  Sex customs,  Teenagers,  Manners and customs,  New York Times reviewed,  Collected works (single author, multi-form),  American Reportage literature,  History and criticism,  Novelas Estadounidenses,  Artículos periodísticos norteamericanos,  American Short stories,  arts,  biography,  homophobia,  literature,  the New Yorker,  sexual mores,  sociobiology

People: Frederick Hart,  Marshall McLuhan,  Gordon Moore,  Robert Noyce,  William Shawn,  William Shockley,  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,  Edward O. Wilson

Places: United States,  USA,  California,  Fort Bragg (N.C.),  New York City

Times: 1971-,  mid to late 20th century