Book : But What If Were Wrong? Thinking About The Present As

-Titulo Original : But What If Were Wrong? Thinking About The Present As If It Were The Past

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Penguin Books

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“Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them. . . Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.” -Kirkus (starred review)“Klosterman’s trademark humor and unique curiosity propel the reader through the book. He remains one of the most insightful critics of pop culture writing today and this is his most thought-provoking and memorable book yet.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review)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 Were 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 Diaz, 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. Review “Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them. . . . This book will become a popular book club selection because it makes readers think. Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.” -Kirkus (starred review)“Klosterman conducts a series of intriguing thought experiments in this delightful new book . . . Klosterman’s trademark humor and unique curiosity propel the reader through the book. He remains one of the most insightful critics of pop culture writing today and this is his most thought-provoking and memorable book yet.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A spin class for the brain . . . Klosterman challenges readers to reexamine the stability of basic concepts, and in doing so broadens our perspectives . . . An engaging and entertaining workout for the mind led by one of today’s funniest and most thought-provoking writers.” -Library Journal (starred review)“Klosterman is a joy to hang out with: He relishes the contradictions he examines while making complex ideas comprehensible. In this new world, though, his voids of certainty aren’t just exhilarating, but ominous.” -Ryan Vlastelica, A.V. Club (Favorite Books of 2016)“But What If We’re Wrong? is a book about the big things we’re wrong about that don’t get discussed, just because everyone assumes they can never happen. That’s as true for culture as it is for science, and the uniquely intellectual and dexterous Klosterman dives in with verve. Bonus points for interviews with some fascinating-and stubborn-people in the process.” -Bloomberg Best Books of 2016, recommended by Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group“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 . . . As inquisitive, thoughtful and dryly funny as ever, But What If We’re Wrong? . . . [is] crackling with the writer’s signature wit.” -Will Ashton, Pit