Hooking Up Book

This book is an anthology of long and longer articles (including one novella) by Tom Wolfe. Despite the title, Hooking Up covers a range of subjects from the at-the-time blasphemous "Tiny Mummies," about the New Yorker (no harm-note the New Yorker is still going strong/stronger 50 years later) to the sheer joy Wolfe found in various American cultures that he so optimistically portrayed. Among his books, this exuberance is seen best in The Right Stuff.

Of the pieces in this anthology, my favorite by far is Wolfe's description of the joyful upending of business and technology Bob Noyce and others accomplished when they started the initial Silicon Valley companies, like Intel, in "Two Young Men Went West." Not to be missed is the riff on West Coast company workers staring at a driver for a Back East exec.

For readers who like Wolfe's novels or his insightful reporting and take on non-fiction subjects, the Silicon Valley article alone is worth the price of the book.

Highly recommended.