Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas - Softcover

Klosterman, Chuck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743284895 ISBN 13: 9780743284899

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 2007

Synopsis

Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form--including the ground-breaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short story--all recontextualized in Chuck's unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes.

Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts:

Things That Are True--Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, the White Stripes, Steve Nash, Morrissey, Robert Plant--all with new introductions and footnotes.

Things That Might Be True--Opinions and theories on everything from monogamy to pirates to robots to super people to guilt, and (of course) Advancement--all with new hypothetical questions and footnotes.

Something That Isn't True At All--This is old fiction. There's a new introduction, but no footnotes. Well, there's a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story.

About this title

Review:

"One of America's top cultural critics." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Mr. Klosterman makes good, smart company." -- The New York Times

"He's perfect junk food for the soul." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The reigning Kasparov of pop culture wits-matching." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Klosterman is like the new Hunter S. Thompson." -- People

"Ferociously clever and ferociously self-deprecating." -- Evening Standard (London)

"He's killing his artform, in hopes of reviving it." -- The Onion A.V. Club

Book Description:

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas - from the hilarious and incisive author of Killing Yourself to Live comes a collection of truths, half truths and downright lies, that will entertain and beguile.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743284895
• ISBN 13: 9780743284899
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432