Coming off the breakthrough success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live, bestselling pop culture guru Chuck Klosterman assembles his best work previously unavailable in book formāincluding the groundbreaking 1996 piece about his chicken McNuggets experiment, his uncensored profile of Britney Spears, and a previously unpublished short storyāall recontextualized in Chuckās unique voice with new intros, outros, segues, and masterful footnotes.
Chuck Klosterman IV consists of three parts:
Things That Are TrueāProfiles and trend stories: Britney Spears, Radiohead, Billy Joel, Metallica, Val Kilmer, Bono, Wilco, the White Stripes, Steve Nash, Morrissey, Robert Plantāall with new introductions and footnotes.
Things That Might Be TrueāOpinions and theories on everything from monogamy to pirates to robots to super people to guilt, and (of course) Advancementāall with new hypothetical questions and footnotes.
Something That Isnāt True At AllāThis is old fiction. Thereās a new introduction, but no footnotes. Well, thereās a footnote in the introduction, but none in the story.