{"product_id":"x-saves-the-world-how-generation-x-got-the-shaft-but-can-still-keep-everything-from-sucking-9780143115151","title":"X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking","description":"\u003cb\u003eRead Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this simultaneously hilarious and incisive \"manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos,\" Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the \"Smells Like Teen Spirit\"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called \"slackers\"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeff Gordinier is the author of \u003ci\u003eX Saves the World\u003c\/i\u003e and the Editor-at-Large at \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He lives in the New York area and has written for a variety of publications, including the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003ci\u003e, and PoetryFoundation.org. Nobody, including Jeff, is quite sure of how to pronounce his last name.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459947139346,"sku":"9780143115151","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2f66007-5e0a-4dc1-a524-168d6935c37c.jpg?v=1730017319","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/x-saves-the-world-how-generation-x-got-the-shaft-but-can-still-keep-everything-from-sucking-9780143115151","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}