Chuck Klosterman IV - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Coming off the breakthrough success of <i>Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs</i> and <i>Killing Yourself to Live</i>, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form--including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short story--all recontextualized in Chuck's unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes.</b> <p/><i>Chuck Klosterman IV</i> consists of three parts: <p/>Things That Are True--Profiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, the White Stripes, Steve Nash, Morrissey, Robert Plant--all with new introductions and footnotes. <p/>Things That Might Be True--Opinions and theories on everything from monogamy to pirates to robots to super people to guilt, and (of course) Advancement--all with new hypothetical questions and footnotes. <p/>Something That Isn't True At All--This is old fiction. There's a new introduction, but no footnotes. Well, there's a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Ferociously clever and ferociously self-deprecating. -- <i>Evening Standard</i> (London)<br><br>He's killing his artform, in hopes of reviving it. -- <i>The Onion A.V. Club</i><br><br>He's perfect junk food for the soul. -- <i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i><br><br>Klosterman is like the new Hunter S. Thompson. -- <i>People</i><br><br>Mr. Klosterman makes good, smart company. -- <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>One of America's top cultural critics. -- <i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br><br>The reigning Kasparov of pop culture wits-matching. -- <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including <i>Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, Fargo Rock City </i>and <i>Chuck Klosterman X</i>) and two novels (<i>Downtown Owl </i>and <i>The Visible Man</i>). He has written for <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>GQ</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Spin</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The Believer, </i> <i>Billboard</i>, <i>The A.V. Club</i>, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for <i>The New York Times Magazine </i>for three years, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons
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