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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780743284882 
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Powells.com Staff Pick
One of Klosterman's most "dangerous ideas" may be his assertion that Billy
Joel is a fantastic songwriter, but, oddly enough, his profile on the singer
is not only fascinating, it earned him the wrath of Mr. Joel himself. How
ironic! And yet, perhaps not. Irony is Klosterman's stock-in-trade, and his
ability to combine it with his insatiable enthusiasm and curiosity for the
world of pop culture is a truly charming talent. Klosterman's collection of
essays is a delight to read; his irrepressible style is both quirky and very
funny.
Recommended by Georgie, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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.
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About the Author
Table of Contents
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 Seem 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" 207
Fargo Rock City, for Real
To Be Scene, or Not to Be Seen
Things That Might Be True
The Grizzly Hypothetical
Nemesis
The Transformation 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
Acknowledgments
Index
What Our Readers Are Saying
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780743284882
- Subtitle:
- A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Scribner Book Company
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Essays
- Subject:
- American - General
- Subject:
- Popular Culture
- Subject:
- Popular Culture - General
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Publication Date:
- September 2006
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 374
- Dimensions:
- 8.4375 x 5.5 in
