Chuck Klosterman Bücher

Der Amerikaner Chuck Klosterman ist Musikjournalist und Buchautor. Sein Roman ›Eine zu 85% wahre Geschichte‹ wurde zum Kultbuch. In ›Nachteulen‹ zeigt er sein literarisches Talent einmal mehr. Irgendwo im Nirgendwo liegt Owl, und dort leben auch Menschen. Zum Beispiel Mitch. Er ist der gefragteste Football-Held seiner Schule und hat Sorge, verrückt zu werden. Oder Julia, Zugereiste und Lehrerin. Sie hat ein Alkoholproblem und ist in den Bison-Züchter verliebt. Und dann ist da noch Horace. Er lebt seit 73 Jahren in diesem Kaff, trinkt Kaffee und denkt an seine verstorbene Frau. Und alle stellen sich die eine Frage: Was heißt es, normal zu sein? Chuck Klosterman erzählt scharf und mit schwarzem Humor von einer Gemeinschaft, in der jeder Einzelne nur eins will: seine Sache so gut als möglich machen, um am Ende nichts zu bereuen.

Chuck ist in Diane verliebt, aber auch in Quincy und Lenore. Die Liebe ist das größte Problem in Chucks Leben. Zum Glück hat der Musikjournalist einen Auftrag – der allerdings scheint noch absurder als sein momentanes Lebensgefühl zu sein. Quer durch die USA fährt er nach Missoula, Ithaca und Rhode Island, an die Orte, an denen Rock-Heroen den Tod fanden. Vom Sumpf, in dem Lynyrd Skynyrds Flugzeug abstürzte bis zum Bungalow, wo sich Kurt Cobain mit einer Schrotflinte erschoss. Rockstars sterben exzentrisch – und werden so unsterblich. Ein witzig-makabres Roadmovie durch das Herz der Musik, die an den Sehnsüchten unserer Seele kratzt. Schließlich kehrt Chuck in die Welt der Lebenden zurück. Was er vom Tod halten soll, weiß er immer noch nicht – nur dass er verliebt ist wie zu Beginn seiner Reise – in Diane, Quincy und Lenore. ›Man kann gar nicht besser, witziger und unterhaltsamer über amerikanische Popkultur schreiben.‹ Stephen King

For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a continent.

An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—GQ From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. In The Nineties, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. The result is a multidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.

Explores a range of modern cultural phenomenon, including Internet pornography, tribute bands, baseball rivalries, and reality television.

Bestselling author Chuck Klosterman returns with his fascinating and often hilarious musings on pop culture and sport

But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or--weirder still--widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we "overrate" democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we've reached the end of knowledge? Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We're Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers--George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others--interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It's a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It's about how we live now, once "now" has become "then."

A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song 'Blizzard of Summer' becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why reality is mathematically unraveling. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination

Admittedly, the Advanced Theory had unpretentious beginnings; Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman invented the concept in 1990 at a Columbia, South Carolina, Pizza Hut. From those fast-food ruminations, however, grew a great hypothesis, perhaps best expressed by Chuck Klosterman, who wrote the foreword for this book; "When a genius does something that appears idiotic, it does not necessarily mean he suddenly sucks. What it might mean is that he's doing something you cannot understand, because he has Advanced beyond you." With that insight, you can take the great leap forward into this provocative and (let's admit it) extremely entertaining paperback original. Editor's recommendation.