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Eating the dinosaur

The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in commo...

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Main Author: Klosterman, Chuck, 1972-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2009.
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Popular culture > United States.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > United States.
Sports > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Civilization > 1970-
Summary: The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common?; and much more.
Physical Description: vii, 245 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781416544203
1416544208
9781439168486 (ebook)
1439168482 (ebook)
Author Notes: Chuck Klosterman, currently a music, film, & culture critic for Ohio's "Akron Beacon Journal", began his career with "The Forum" in Fargo, North Dakota. He lives in Akron, Ohio, where he once consumed nothing but McDonald's Chicken McNuggets for seven straight days.

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