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Fargo Rock City

Chuck Klosterman
Fargo Rock City Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471104503

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Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

The year is 1983, and Chuck Klosterman just wants to rock. But he's got problems. For one, he's in the fifth grade. For another, he lives in rural North Dakota. Worst of all, his parents aren't exactly down with the long hairstyle which rocking requires. Luckily, his brother saves the day when he brings home a bit of manna from metal heaven, SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, Motley Crue's seminal paean to hair-band excess. And so Klosterman's twisted odyssey begins, a journey spent worshipping at the heavy metal altar of Poison, Lita Ford and Guns N' Roses. In the hilarious, young-man-growing-up-with-a-soundtrack-tradition, FARGO ROCK CITY chronicles Klosterman's formative years through the lens of heavy metal, the irony-deficient genre that, for better or worse, dominated the pop charts throughout the 1980s. For readers of Dave Eggers, Lester Bangs, and Nick Hornby, Klosterman delivers all the goods: from his first dance (with a girl) and his eye-opening trip to Mandan with the debate team; to his list of 'essential' albums; and his thoughtful analysis of the similarities between Guns 'n' Roses' 'Lies' and the gospels of the New Testament.

Chuck Klosterman on Rock

Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman on Rock Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781451624496

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Chuck Klosterman on Rock by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

From Fargo Rock City; 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 rock music.

Killing Yourself to Live

Chuck Klosterman
Killing Yourself to Live Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743264464

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Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

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.

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

Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman IV A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780571314126

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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

Chuck Klosterman has become the pop culture commentator of his time. Now, our favourite popular phenomenon offers new introductions, outros, segues, and footnotes around a collection sure to enlarge his following. Chuck Klosterman IV is divided into three parts: Part I: Things That Are True showcases Chuck's best profiles and trend stories from the past decade. Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, U2, Radiohead, Wilco, The White Stripes, Steve Nash, 50 cent - they're all here, complete with behind-the-scenes details and ingenious analysis. Part II: Things That Might Be True assembles the best of opinion pieces that brim with a characteristic candor - always interesting, often infuriating, occasionally insane. Now fortified with twenty new hypothetical questions. Part III: Things That Are Not True At All offers an unpublished short story. While semi-autobiographical, it features a woman who falls out of the sky and lands on a man's car.

Eating the Dinosaur

Chuck Klosterman
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Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781416544203

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Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

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.

But What If We're Wrong?

Chuck Klosterman
But What If We re Wrong Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780399184147

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But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks 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 of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’ve reached the end of knowledge? Klosterman visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We’re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”

I Wear the Black Hat

Chuck Klosterman
I Wear the Black Hat Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439184516

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I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

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.

Downtown Owl

Chuck Klosterman
Downtown Owl Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416580652

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Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

Now a major film! New York Times bestselling author and “one of America’s top cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small-town life. Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They don’t have cable. They don’t really have pop culture, but they do have grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. But that’s not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it’s perfect. Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just moved to Owl. A history teacher, she gets free booze and falls in love with a self-loathing bison farmer. Widower and local conversationalist Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three years. They all know each other completely, except that they’ve never met. But when a deadly blizzard—based on an actual storm that occurred in 1984—hits the area, their lives are derailed in unexpected and powerful ways. An unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where local mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing, Downtown Owl is “a satisfying character study and strikes a perfect balance between the funny and the profound” (Publishers Weekly).

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Chuck Klosterman
Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780571314140

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire 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 (of which there is none). Sex, Drugs and Coca Puffs is ostensibly about movies, sport, television, music, books, video games and kittens, but really it's about us. All of us.

Chuck Klosterman X

Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman X Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780399184178

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Chuck Klosterman X by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman sorts through the past decade and how we got to now. Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also addressing interpersonal issues, social quandaries, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books, helped found and establish Grantland, served as the New York Times Magazine Ethicist, worked on film and television productions, and contributed profiles and essays to outlets such as GQ, Esquire, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and The Guardian. Chuck Klosterman's tenth book (aka Chuck Klosterman X) collects his most intriguing of those pieces, accompanied by fresh introductions and new footnotes throughout. Klosterman presents many of the articles in their original form, featuring previously unpublished passages and digressions. Subjects include Breaking Bad, Lou Reed, zombies, KISS, Jimmy Page, Stephen Malkmus, steroids, Mountain Dew, Chinese Democracy, The Beatles, Jonathan Franzen, Taylor Swift, Tim Tebow, Kobe Bryant, Usain Bolt, Eddie Van Halen, Charlie Brown, the Cleveland Browns, and many more cultural figures and pop phenomena. This is a tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times.

Rock and Roll Always Forgets

Chuck Eddy
Rock and Roll Always Forgets Book PDF

Author : Chuck Eddy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822350101

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Rock and Roll Always Forgets by Chuck Eddy Pdf

The best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by the entertaining, idiosyncratic, and influential music writer Chuck Eddy over the past twenty-five years.

The Visible Man

Chuck Klosterman
The Visible Man Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439184479

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The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

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.

The Rock History Reader

Theo Cateforis
The Rock History Reader Book PDF

Author : Theo Cateforis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136201028

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The Rock History Reader by Theo Cateforis Pdf

The Rock History Reader is an eclectic compilation of readings that tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. The readings range from the vivid autobiographical accounts of such rock icons as Ronnie Spector and David Lee Roth to the writings of noted rock critics like Lester Bangs and Chuck Klosterman. It also includes a variety of selections from media critics, musicologists, fanzine writers, legal experts, sociologists and prominent political figures. Many entries also deal specifically with distinctive styles such as Motown, punk, disco, grunge, rap and indie rock. Each entry includes headnotes, which place it in its historical context. This second edition includes new readings on the early years of rhythm & blues and rock ‘n’ roll, as well as entries on payola, mods, the rise of FM rock, progressive rock and the PMRC congressional hearings. In addition, there is a wealth of new material on the 2000s that explores such relatively recent developments as emo, mash ups, the explosion of internet culture and new media, and iconic figures like Radiohead and Lady Gaga. With numerous readings that delve into the often explosive issues surrounding censorship, copyright, race relations, feminism, youth subcultures, and the meaning of musical value, The Rock History Reader continues to appeal to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines.

Raised in Captivity

Chuck Klosterman
Raised in Captivity Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735217942

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Raised in Captivity by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.

Fargo Rock City, for Real

Chuck Klosterman
Fargo Rock City for Real Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781451624571

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Fargo Rock City, for Real by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Rock, this essay is about underground rock.