The Nineties: A Book
Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story is literally about media alienation, so it can’t really be about media alienation.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“On the day that they switched the preset, it was the beginning of this separation of one song from the rest of our catalog,” Krukowski said: “Strange” was being recommended by that system more often than any of Galaxie 500’s other songs.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
That’s what Marilyn did; she gave her body to the post–World War II archetypes of sport, art, and politics. She was the lover of—at least for—classic greatness. Pam’s in the same position, but she has to be the lover of postmodern greatness. That’s why we all had to watch her give a blow job to the drummer from Mötley Crüe.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us. People played by the old rules, despite a growing recognition that t
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