Chuck Klosterman

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

A Low Culture Manifesto

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of "Fargo Rock City" comes another hilarious and discerning take on popular culture, exploring everything from the crucial role of breakfast cereal to how John Cusack films destroy the modern meaning of love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner Book Company
• Seitenzahl: 253
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780743236010
• ISBN-10: 0743236017
• Artikelnr.: 22042546

Autorenporträt

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including The Nineties, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, and But What If We're Wrong?) and fiction (Downtown Owl, The Visible Man, and Raised in Captivity). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The Believer, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1 This Is Emo
(carnivore interlude)
2 Billy Sim
(reality interlude)
3 What Happens When People Stop Being Polite
(Pat Benatar interlude)
4 Every Dog Must Have His Every Day, Every Drunk Must Have His Drink
(Monkees = Monkees interlude)
5 Appetite for Replication
(an interlude to be named later)
6 Ten Seconds to Love
(metaphorical fruit interlude)
7 George Will vs. Nick Hornby
(Ralph Nader interlude)
8 33
(Fonzie recalibration interlude)
9 Porn
("kitty cat as terrorist" interlude)
10 The Lady or the Tiger
(hypothetical interlude)
11 Being Zack Morris
(50-50 interlude)
12 Sulking with Lisa Loeb on the Ice Planet Hoth
(anti-homeless interlude)
13 The Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-like Face
(punk interlude)
14 Toby over Moby
(Johnny Cash interlude)
15 This Is Zodiac Speaking
(Timothy McVeigh interlude)
16 All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers
(boom!)
17 I, Rock Chump
(waiting to die interlude)
18 How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found