Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century
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Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, while also addressing interpersonal issues, social quandaries, and ethical boundaries. Klosterman has written nine previous books, helped found and establish Grantland, served as the New York Times Magazine Ethicist, worked on film and television productions, and contributed profiles and essays to outlets such as GQ, Esquire, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and The Guardian.
Chuck Klosterman's tenth book (aka Chuck Klosterman X) collects his most intriguing of those pieces, accompanied by fresh introductions and new footnotes throughout. Klosterman presents many of the articles in their original form, featuring previously unpublished passages and digressions. Subjects include Breaking Bad, Lou Reed, zombies, KISS, Jimmy Page, Stephen Malkmus, steroids, Mountain Dew, Chinese Democracy, The Beatles, Jonathan Franzen, Taylor Swift, Tim Tebow, Kobe Bryant, Usain Bolt, Eddie Van Halen, Charlie Brown, the Cleveland Browns, and many more cultural figures and pop phenomena. This is a tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times.
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Chuck Klosterman. (2017). Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. Penguin Publishing Group.
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A collection of journalistic pieces that remain provocative, or at least interesting, even if the subjects that inspired them have faded from memory.In his 10th book, pop-culture contrarian Klosterman (But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present as If It Were the Past, 2016, etc.) suggests that he has matured more gracefully than many of those he has written about. He built his career as the anti-critic critic, the guy who embraced hair metal and didn't care much for a lot of what music critics claimed to love. Or, as he writes in one of his more recent introductions to older pieces, "one of the things I love about covering uncool artists is that groups widely described as 'hated' are almost always more popular than groups who are described as 'beloved, ' " referring to a piece on the critically reviled Creed and Nickelback. On that same page, he remarks, of a longer retrospective, "I don't expect most people who buy this book will read a ten-thousand-word essay on KISS. It is, however, twice as good as a five-thousand-word essay on KISS." Though it has been tempting to dismiss Klosterman as a one-trick pony, claiming black where others (in print at least) see white, the best work offers insight into the relations among artist, art, and audience that goes considerably deeper. The profiles of Taylor Swift, Kobe Bryant, and Jonathan Franzen will leave readers with fresh appreciation for both the subjects and the journalist, who understands how the three are similar in terms of what they have accomplished and what challenges they have faced in terms of popular perception. It is possible that nobody has ever understood Swift better on the page, while the Franzen piece falls a little short of that for reasons Klosterman explains: "We are both working writers with vaguely similar lives. He, however, is more talented, more successful, and considerably more respected....There was a power imbalance, recognized by both of us." Even those who only dimly remember Royce White, Pavement, or Gnarls Barkley will find the reflections on them engaging.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Starred review from June 1, 2017
Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; But What If We're Wrong) has written nine books and a slew of articles for newspapers, magazines, and online publications. This collection features his best pieces from the last ten years. Although a majority of the articles focus on music or sports, Klosterman also ruminates on literature, pop culture, death, and much more. Filtered through his literary sensibility are honest, critical, profound, and compulsively readable interviews with Jimmy Page, Taylor Swift, Kobe Bryant, and Tom Brady (to name a few). Each piece is a polished stone of insightful reportage. But Klosterman's work flirts closest with the sublime when he strays from the famous, including his retelling of an intense junior college basketball game in North Dakota, a conversation with a busboy in Tulsa, the infuriating demands of a forgotten NBA draft pick, and the evening of his father's death. VERDICT A funny, thoughtful Greatest Hits album from a master of nonfiction, with standout tracks that will stand the test of time.--Paul Stenis, Pepperdine Univ. Lib., Malibu, CA
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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