Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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2004 paperback edition cover
Author Chuck Klosterman
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject Popular culture
Publisher Scribner
Publication date
August 26, 2003
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages256
ISBN 0-7432-3600-9
OCLC 55756891
306/.0973 21
LC Class E169.12 .K56 2003
Preceded by Fargo Rock City  
Followed by Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story  

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto is a book written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2003. It is a collection of eighteen comedic essays on popular culture.

Contents

The book cover was designed by Paul Sahre. [1]

Overview

Klosterman presents his essays as if they were tracks on a CD. Between each essay, or track, is an "interlude"a short, entertaining blurb linking the essays. The following essays are included in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs:

Reception

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs was positively reviewed by critics. Critic Mark Greif in The Guardian called it "one of the better essay collections of recent years," noting "Klosterman has attained cult status, his books joining the select and successful canon of reading for people who do not read." [2] The A.V. Club declared Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs "one of the brightest pieces of pop analysis to appear this century." [3]

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References

  1. "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs". Book Cover Archive. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. "Mark Greif, "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto," The Guardian, 8 February 2008". Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  3. "Noel Murray, "Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs," The A.V. Club, 11 August 2003". Archived from the original on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.

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