Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society
Title | Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2010-09-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1451624972 |
From Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur, these essays are now available in this ebook collection for fans of Klosterman’s writing on living and society.
Super People
Title | Super People PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 2010-09-14 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1451625073 |
Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about Super People.
I Wear the Black Hat
Title | I Wear the Black Hat PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2013-07-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1439184518 |
One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture—and maybe even American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and really, really funny.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Title | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2004-06-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780743236010 |
Now in paperback after six hardback printings, the damn funny...wild collection of bracingly intelligent essays about topics that aren't quite as intelligent as Chuck Klosterman'(Esquire). Following the success of Fargo Rock City, Klosterman, a senior writer at Spin magazine, is back with a hilarious and savvy manifesto for a youth gone wild on pop culture and media, taking on everything from Guns'n'Roses tribute bands to Christian fundamentalism to internet porn. 'Maddeningly smart and funny' - Washington Post'
Chuck Klosterman IV
Title | Chuck Klosterman IV PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2006-09-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0743284887 |
A bestselling pop culture guru and author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" takes a unique look at his career in journalism, in this collection of work that includes the legendary chicken McNuggets experiment and an uncensored profile of Britney Spears.
Eating the Dinosaur
Title | Eating the Dinosaur PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009-10-20 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1416544208 |
The bestselling author of "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" returns with an all-original nonfiction collection of questions and answers about pop culture, sports, and the meaning of reality.
Killing Yourself to Live
Title | Killing Yourself to Live PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2006-06-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0743264460 |
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.