Chuck Klosterman X : A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century

Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the web. His writing spans the realms of culture and sports, interpersonal issues and ethical boundaries, the consciously irrelevant and the accidentally profound. Chuck Klosterman X anthologizes his best work from the past twelve years, paradoxically pinballing through a maze of Breaking Bad, Charlie Brown, Lou Read, and the zombie apocalypse to Tom Brady, Mountain Dew, Taylor Swift, and KISS. It's fever graph of the American psyche in collective collapse, a process slightly funnier than it probably should be. Book jacket.