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Killing Yourself to Live

Killing Yourself to Live
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For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end -- one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a half-mile through a bean field. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, explained to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. He listened to the KISS solo albums and the Rod Stewart box set. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing...and what this means for the rest of us.

"I can't think of a more sheerly likable writer than Chuck Klosterman and his old-fashioned, all-American voice: big-hearted and direct, bright and unironic, optimistic and amiable, self-deprecating and reassuring -- with a captivating lack of fuss or pretension. He's also genuinely funny and I pretty much agree with everything he says."

-- -Bret Easton Ellis

-- -Bret Easton Ellis

"Thank God Chuck lives the life he does and writes the way he writes about it. It's not just autobiography; it's a vital form of truth, and he's the real thing."

--Douglas Coupland

-- Douglas Coupland

"[Klosterman] writes with real articulacy and feeling about the relationship between rock music and the non-alpha males who worship it. . . . He's ferociously clever and ferociously self-deprecating, which makes him a superb companion. . . . I absolutely loved it. I don't suppose those guys in tight trousers and makeup have any idea they have such a great chronicler."

-- William Leith, Evening Standard (London)
WWeek, October 5, 2011
...CHUCK KLOSTERMAN - IMAGE: Kris Drake 0 Comments Interviewing Chuck Klosterman is an intensely meta experience. For one thing, he’s an interviewer of some renown himself: His profiles on everyone ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, July 1, 2009
... by Chuck Klosterman Chuck Klosterman has created another intelligent, witty, and entertaining masterpiece in Chuck Klosterman is one of the most entertaining, thought provoking rock essayists to read today. His vast knowledge ...