Klosterman, Chuck
Summary: Presents an anthology of high-concept stories, including one in which an obscure pop band grapples with fame when its song becomes a white supremacist anthem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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Summary: "Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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Summary: Treating a delusional scientist who has been using cloaking technology from an aborted government project to render himself nearly invisible, Austin therapist Victoria Vick becomes obsessed with his accounts of spying on the private lives of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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Summary: A tale based on a deadly 1984 North Dakota blizzard follows the experiences of a small rural community devoted to its high-school athletics and its citizens' minor scandals, until a dangerous storm impacts the town in unsettling and powerful ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008
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Summary: The author 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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Summary: Klosterman has written nine previous books, helped found and establish Grantland, served as the New York Times MagazineEthicist, worked on film and television productions, and contributed profiles and essays to outlets such asGQ, Esquire, Billboard, The A.V. Club, andThe Guardian. Chuck Klosterman's tenth book (akaChuck Klosterman X) collects his most intriguing of those pieces, accompanied by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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Summary: Explores a range of modern cultural phenomenon, including Internet pornography, tribute bands, baseball rivalries, and reality television.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Summary: We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Klosterman "visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past, [asking] questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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Summary: Residents of Owl, North Dakota, are hopelessly behind the times. They completely missed the punk movement and they don't even have cable. Klosterman follows three Owl residents: achingly normal high school football player Mick, 73-year-old Horace, and Julia--a new resident who wants to shake things up, and soon falls in love with a bison farmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: Follows frontman James Murphy in the hours just before and after LCD Soundsystem's farewell concert, intertwined with a conversation between Murphy and author Chuck Klosterman as they discuss music, art, and aging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2012