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Chuck Klosterman IV

Chuck Klosterman IV
A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas  
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SEX, DRUGS, AND COCOA PUFFS

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN IV
CONSISTS OF THREE PARTS:

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.

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.

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.

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"One of America's top cultural critics."

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Mr. Klosterman makes good, smart company."

-- The New York Times

"He's perfect junk food for the soul."

-- The Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The reigning Kasparov of pop culture wits-matching."

-- San Francisco Chronicle

"Klosterman is like the new Hunter S. Thompson."

-- People

"Ferociously clever and ferociously self-deprecating."

-- Evening Standard (London)

"He's killing his artform, in hopes of reviving it."

-- The Onion A.V. Club
EyeWeekly.com, November 12, 2009
...he estimated that he received an average of 0.4 talking-head proposals every day. I suspect that, for Chuck Klosterman, the daily opportunities to make meaning must be in the thousands. is the popular cultural journalist’s sixth book and ...
Boston Herald, March 20, 2009
...But only about five guys can do it without making us want to sock them in the jaw. Chuck Klosterman is one of the chosen few. Klosterman isnt content with writing hit books - Fargo Rock City, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, etc. - that ...