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| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | February 8, 2022 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
The Nineties: A Book is a 2022 book by Chuck Klosterman. It is an analysis of historical trends and pop culture phenomena in the decade of the 1990s. It was released February 8, 2022, by Penguin Books. [1] [2] [3] [4] It debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list on February 27, 2022. [5]
Topics include an exploration of grunge, a brief history of VHS rental stores and those who worked there (future film directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith), analysis of the 1992 and 2000 presidential elections, the rise of the Internet, the popularity of country musician Garth Brooks, the decade's stance against "selling out" and interviews with author Douglas Coupland about his 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture . [6] [7] [8]
Events discussed in the book:
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas is a book written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2006. It is the fourth book by Klosterman. The paperback edition was released in July 2007. The book consists of three sections: Things That Are True is a collection of previously published interviews with new introductions and footnotes; Things That Might Be True collects previously published opinion articles that include new footnotes and are preceded by hypothetical questions, a literary device Klosterman used in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto; and Something That Isn't True At All is the beginning of an unfinished novel written in 2000. This final section is a departure for Klosterman, as it is his first published work of fiction. The main character, Jack, is allegedly based upon Klosterman's personality traits, but the author asserts that the events which occur in the story are completely fictional.
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