| Description |
vii, 374 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book 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 new fiction. There's an introduction, but no footnotes. Well, there's a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
Things that are true -- Southern-fried sex kitten -- Bending spoons with Britney Spears -- (This happened in) October -- Mysterious days -- Call me "Lizard King" (no, really. I insist) -- Crazy things seem normal, normal things seems crazy -- 1,400 Mexican Moz fans can't be (totally) wrong -- Viva Morrissey! -- Chomp Chomp -- The amazing McNugget diet -- McDiculous -- My second-favorite Canadian -- The Karl Marx of the hardwood -- Deep blue something -- That '70s cruise -- "Deep sabbath" -- In the beginning, there was Zoso -- Not a whole lotta love -- Disposable heroes -- Band on the couch -- Unbuttoning the hardest button to button -- Garage days unvisited -- The Ice planet goth -- Something wicked this way comes -- Fitter, happier -- No more knives -- The American radiohead -- Ghost story -- Bowling for the future (and possibly horse carcasses) -- Local clairvoyants split over future -- But I still think "All for Leyna" is awesome -- The stranger -- Someone like you -- Dude rocks like a lady -- Taking the streets to the music -- Untitled geezer profile -- Five interesting corpses -- The Ratt trap -- How real is real -- The tenth Beatle -- Here's "Johnny" -- Fargo rock city, for real -- To be scene, or not to be seen -- Things that might be true -- The grizzly hypothetical -- Nemesis -- The trasformation hypothetical -- Advancement -- The unknown companion hypothetical -- I do not hate the Olympics -- The dress code hypothetical -- Three stories involving pants -- THe court of public opinion hypothetical -- Don't look back in anger -- The brain pill hypothetical -- Not guilty -- The life plagiarist hypothetical -- Cultural betrayal -- The universal morality hypothetical -- Monogamy -- The Joe Six-pack hypothetical -- Certain rock bands you probably like -- The Hitler theft hypothetical -- Pirates -- The robot war hypothetical -- Robots -- The cannibal's quandary -- Super people -- The apocalypse hypothetical -- Television -- The General Tso's hypothetical -- Singularity -- Something that isn't true at all -- You tell me. |
| Genre/Form |
American essays.
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| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States.
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American essays.
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| Added Title |
Chuck Klosterman 4 |
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Chuck Klosterman four |
| ISBN |
0743284887 |
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9780743284882 |
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