Chuck Klosterman Presents Chuck Klosterman X
The Audio Companion to a Highly Specific and Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century

A fun fact about me is that sometimes (not very often, in fact extremely rarely, but sometimes), I get tired of reading. So I take a break and put the books down so I can read on the internet instead. In other words, this book (which is a collection of articles written by Chuck Klosterman) allowed me......more

I hate Chuck Klosterman. I’ve hated him ever since I picked up “Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” the summer I graduated high school. Here was this guy, this dude, with the gall to write about the dumbest things possible and make them seem important. The very same topics that consumed my life up until that......more

As you can guess from the title this is Chuck Klosterman’s tenth book which is an anthology of previously published articles - and I really enjoyed reading it! The writing voice Klosterman’s cultivated over the years is very compelling. Obviously it helps that the subject matters - pop culture comme......more

If an extinction-level event were to occur tomorrow (let’s say, hypothetically, a viral pandemic that would turn every human’s brain into guacamole) and, in a thousand years, an alien expedition of extraterrestrial archaeologists happened upon our human-free planet, their best source for understandi......more

“It’s uncomfortable to admit this, but technology has made the ability to remember things irrelevant. Intellectually, having a deep memory used to be a real competitive advantage. Now it’s like having the ability to multiply four-digit numbers in your head-impressive, but not essential.” P 37 I do......more