But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past - Paperback

But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past - Paperback

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But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past - Paperback
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But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past - Paperback

But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past - Paperback

$20.16
$20.16

by Chuck Klosterman (Author)

"Klosterman is outlining the ideology of a contrarian here and reminding us of the important role that revisionism plays in cultural writing. What matters is the way he thinks about thinking--and the way he makes you think about how you think. And, in the end, this is all that criticism can really hope to do." --Sonny Bunch, The Washington Post

"[Klosterman's] most wide-ranging accomplishment to date . . . crackling with the writer's signature wit." --Will Ashton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The tremendously well-received New York Times bestseller by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, exploring the possibility that our currently held beliefs and assumptions about the world will eventually be proven wrong--now in paperback.

But What If We're Wrong? is a book of original, reported, interconnected pieces, which speculate on the likelihood that many universally accepted, deeply ingrained cultural and scientific beliefs will someday seem absurd. Covering a spectrum of objective and subjective topics, the book attempts to visualize present-day society the way it will be viewed in a distant future. Klosterman cites original interviews with a wide variety of thinkers and experts--including George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Alex Ross, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Dan Carlin, Nick Bostrom, and Richard Linklater. Klosterman asks straightforward questions that are profound in their simplicity, and the answers he explores and integrates with his own analysis generate the most thought-provoking and propulsive book of his career.

Author Biography

Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight nonfiction books (including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; I Wear the Black Hat; But What If We're Wrong?; and Killing Yourself to Live) and two novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The Believer, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years, appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons.

Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: April 25, 2017

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