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Book Cover for: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Chuck Klosterman

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Chuck Klosterman

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Over half a million copies sold! From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture--set in Chuck Klosterman's den and your own--covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial role of breakfast cereal to the awesome power of the Dixie Chicks.Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation. Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of The Empire Strikes Back or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane--usually all at once. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is ostensibly about art, entertainment, infotainment, sports, politics, and kittens, but--really--it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'" Read to believe.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Scribner Book Company
  • Publish Date: Jul 2nd, 2004
  • Pages: 253
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.56in - 5.60in - 0.65in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9780743236010
  • Categories: • Popular Culture• Essays

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About the Author

Klosterman, Chuck: - Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including The Nineties, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, and But What If We're Wrong?) and fiction (Downtown Owl, The Visible Man, and Raised in Captivity). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The Believer, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons.

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca Good

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself. PS. - Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

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A.J. Delgado
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lawyer via @harvard_law; made w/ Cuban parts; proud mami of 4 rescue dogs & 1 human boy, Wills (my 💙) #3:16

@elonmusk @lexfridman I would add Slaughterhouse Five; A Man for All Seasons (short play); and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

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Casey (aka "Bingo")
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you're just not advanced enough yet

many years ago now. maybe even from Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs? but klosterman wrote a good essay when news punditry shows were first taking off about how they were the worst trick imaginable. a show that makes viewers feel intellectual while telling them what to think https://t.co/RTfNVsbn33

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Praise for this book

The Onion a.v. club One of the brightest pieces of pop analysis to appear this century.
GQ Quintessential Klosterman -- sometimes exasperating but almost always engaging.
San Francisco Chronicle The reigning Kasparov of pop culture wits-matching.
The Washington Post Maddeningly smart and funny...[Klosterman's] good humor, compassion, and raw associative powers put him in the same league as Nick Hornby and Douglas Coupland, though he's a more tenacious critic than either.

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