{"title":"Books by Chuck Klosterman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780735217966","title":"The Nineties","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eBut What If We’re Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Nineties\u003c\/i\u003e, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9\/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin\/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. The result is a multidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as \u003ci\u003eKlostermanian\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128871452850,"sku":"9780735217966","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780735217966_9076d5de-af1b-4b8f-a7d1-4a50e626a546.jpg?v=1786014789"},{"product_id":"9780571232208","title":"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs","description":"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. 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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 absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure – until, of course, they don’t.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut What If We’re Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who’ll perceive it as the distant past. 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKinetically 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299562500469,"sku":"9781445663388","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781445663388_921b3124-9ca5-411e-a215-a824aaba41cb.jpg?v=1786020898"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-chuck-klosterman.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}