Showcasing the author's best profiles and trend stories over the years ranging from those of Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, U2, Radiohead, to Wilco, The White Stripes, Steve Nash, and 50 cent, this title also features behind-the-scenes details and analysis.[...]

New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes the best of his articles and essays from the past decade.

Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms [...]

A philosophical meditation on life, death, celebrity, rock 'n' roll, why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing... and what that means for the rest of us.[...]

Takes a critical approach to the spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, breakfast cereal, serial killers, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges.[...]

The pop culture author of Fargo Rock City and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs recounts his more than 6,500-mile journey across America, during which he visited the sites of famous rock star deaths and experienced philosophical changes of perspective. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.[...]

Playing high school football in a rural North Dakota community in which most citizens focus their lives on grain alcohol, Mitch Hrlicka finds his fate intertwined with those of a history teacher and a septuagenarian widower during a deadly 1984 blizzard. Reprint. A first novel.[...]

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The Advanced Genius Theory, hatched by Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman over pizza, began as a means to explain why icons such as Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Sting seem to go from artistic brilliance in their early careers to "losing it" as they grow older. The Theory [...]

Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodness-but as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing; it was because they were doing it on purpo[...]

Lukemattomat kirjoittajat ja taiteilijat ovat toimineet sukupolvensa äänitorvina, mutta kukaan ei ole tehnyt sitä niin kuin Chuck Klosterman. Klosterman hyökkää koko rintaman leveydeltä postmodernin Amerikan kimppuun. Aiheina mm. tosi-tv, nettiporno, Pamela Andersonin kulttuurinen merkitys, k[...]