{"product_id":"eating-the-dinosaur-9781416544210","title":"Eating the Dinosaur","description":"\u003cb\u003eAfter a bestselling and acclaimed diversion into fiction, Chuck Klosterman, author of \u003ci\u003eSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs\u003c\/i\u003e, returns to the form in which he's been spectacularly successful with a collection of essays about our consumption of pop culture and sports.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQ: What is this book about?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA: Well, that's difficult to say. I haven't read it yet--I've just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. There clearly isn't a plot. I've heard there's a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don't laugh when they're inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about \u003ci\u003eRear Window \u003c\/i\u003eand college football and \u003ci\u003eMad Men \u003c\/i\u003eand why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there's a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I'm misinformed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQ: Is there a larger theme?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA: Oh, something about reality. \"What is reality,\" maybe? No, that's not it. Not exactly. I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened. Also, Lady Gaga. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQ: Should I read this book?\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA: Probably. Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvana's \u003ci\u003eIn Utero\u003c\/i\u003e? Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi? Does ABBA remind you of AC\/DC? If so, you probably don't need to read this book. You probably wrote this book. But I suspect everybody else will totally love it, except for the ones who totally hate it.\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":50726217974034,"sku":"9781416544210","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a1efe835-a17d-4a24-b8dc-5424ac415d6c.jpg?v=1734858755","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eating-the-dinosaur-9781416544210","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}