{"product_id":"chuck-klosterman-iv-a-decade-of-curious-people-and-dangerous-ideas-9780743284899","title":"Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas","description":"\u003cb\u003eComing off the breakthrough success of \u003ci\u003eSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKilling Yourself to Live\u003c\/i\u003e, 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1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short story--all recontextualized in Chuck's unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eChuck Klosterman IV\u003c\/i\u003e consists of three parts: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThings 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThings 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSomething 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including \u003ci\u003eThe Nineties\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBut What If We're Wrong?\u003c\/i\u003e) and fiction (\u003ci\u003eDowntown Owl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Visible Man, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRaised in Captivity\u003c\/i\u003e). He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBillboard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efor three years, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460925886738,"sku":"9780743284899","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc3d0e72-c728-4b7f-9eec-2ddb2d790e57.jpg?v=1730050389","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chuck-klosterman-iv-a-decade-of-curious-people-and-dangerous-ideas-9780743284899","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}