Chuck Klosterman IV, Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman IV, Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck Klosterman IV
A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Author: Chuck Klosterman

Narrator: Chuck Klosterman

Abridged: 5 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2006


Synopsis

Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book form—including the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short story—all recontextualized in Chuck’s unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes.

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.

About Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including The NinetiesSex, 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 TimesThe Washington PostGQEsquireSpinThe GuardianThe Believer, BillboardThe 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. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steven on August 31, 2007

I love Klosterman, I know others don’t, but I do. Premises from IV that made me think: - Brittney Spears is either brilliant or a moron in not understanding her role in perpetuating the Madonna/whore dichotomy. - U2 might be genuine, they might be full of it, but they understand the concept that as lon......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on June 30, 2008

as my friend sigurdur hilmarsson always says, "one data point is only a point; two points is a line." when i read _sex, drugs and cocoa puffs_ -- the conventionally-wise "best klosterman book" -- i couldn't discern what troubled me about his blend of hyper-citation, extreme pop-cultural literacy, and......more

Goodreads review by Winter on December 02, 2015

Things that are true: Anyone who has read Klosterman’s IV will understand the following statement: Klosterman has become a guilty pleasure of mine. I receive enjoyment from his writings, yet feel guilty for liking them. Too often he comes off as smug and formulaic. I think that is what’s so problemat......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on April 19, 2019

Update: Five years later, some of this has aged poorly (especially Klosterman's creepy interview with Britney Spears). Still a 4/5, but no longer the kind of thing I see myself taking the time to reread. This podcast is full of hilarious Klosterman put-downs if you dislike him (or would consider re-......more

Goodreads review by Glen on March 10, 2019

A collection of columns Klosterman wrote mostly for Rolling Stone Magazine. It's very self important for such ephemera, but that's the very nature of Rolling Stone. The most glaring thing I found is that the vast majority of celebrities mentioned, nobody cares about any more. Isn't it a relief not t......more


Quotes

"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