Eating the Dinosaur

Eating the Dinosaur

By Chuck Klosterman
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“In the course of the collection’s thirteen essays, Klosterman burrows into overexposed but underexplored departments of American pop culture. Declaring himself ‘post-taste,’ he evaluates not the merits of certain phenomena but the ways we ‘us’ them.”

New York Times

Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost 15 years. He's covered extreme metal, extreme nostalgia, disposable art, disposable heroes, life on the road, life through the television, urban uncertainty, and small-town weirdness. Through a variety of media and with a multitude of motives, he's written about everything he can think of (and a lot that he's forgotten). The world keeps accelerating, but the pop ideas keep coming. 


In Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever. Whether he's dissecting the boredom of voyeurism, the reason why music fans inevitably hate their favorite band's latest album, or why we love watching can't-miss superstars fail spectacularly, Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation, reality, and living history. It's amateur anthropology for the present tense, and sometimes it's incredibly funny.