Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman · first published 2003
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"Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation. Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or
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I strongly recommend that you folks read Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" if you haven't already: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/074... Some will adore his writing style, others will hate it. As an essayist, his prose is…
on “Tell HN: Read Maxim and other trashy "guy" rags.” ↗…someone is so great, and I am afraid I don't focus nearly as much on the latter. As an aside on the article, Chuck Klosterman has a very humorous analysis of the "I'm not here to make friend's" meme in 'Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs' (http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drugs-Cocoa-Puffs-Manifesto/dp/074...)
on “Why Friends Matter at Work and in Life” ↗I've been into Klosterman lately Downtown Owl (novel) Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs (essays on pop culture) Eating the Dinosaur (more essays) Other Novels: Lolita - Nabokov White Noise - Delillo
on “Ask HN: Summer Reading Recommendations?” ↗…American Life episode 458, "Play the Part" provides good testimony about this process from someone who worked in editing. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/458/p... Chuck Klosterman's "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" has a chapter on the Real World, "What Happens When People Stop Being Polite." It'd probably be the most work to seek out, but it's my highest recommendation, well worth it. He's a pretty entertaining…
on “The ‘Loser Edit’ That Awaits Us All” ↗From the book "Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" by Chuck Klosterman > Certainly, there is a formula to being relentlessly dynamic. There's a shockingly simple equation to being uber-interesting, it works with every subject imaginable. > The formula is as follows: When discussing any given issue, always do three things. First, make an intellectual concession (this makes the l
on “How to Spot AI Writing” ↗…you strategically make a good impression? From the outset, frame the conversation with a few well-rehearsed sentences regarding how you want to be perceived. Klosterman comes to the same realization in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa-Puffs, though from an unlikely angle--the dawn of reality television. On The Real World, producers had no time to explain anyone's personality in depth, so they boiled each housemate down to a simple stereotype…
on “How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (2015)” ↗