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(0)Chuck Klosterman
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
2) The nineties
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
At the beginning, everyone's name and address was listed in the phone book, and everyone answered their landline because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their cell phone if they didn't know who was calling. Klosterman shows that in the 1990s there was a wholesale shift in how society was perceived. He shows how the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xvii, 444 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes the best of his articles and essays from the past decade. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also addressing interpersonal issues, social quandaries, and ethical boundaries.