The final chapter of Chuck Klosterman’s new collection of essays, The Nineties, is titled, “it was the end of the decade, it was the end of decades.” I suppose that’s true. Maybe it comes with getting older and being unplugged from the popular culture to a certain extent but the last twenty years feels muddled…
SELLOUT covers the major label signings of several punk, emo and hardcore bands between the years of 1994 and 2007. While I’ve always had a soft spot for pop-punk and emo bands, I’ve been on a pretty heavy kick recently, so when I was looking to read something about genres, Dan Ozzi’s recent release, SELLOUT,…
As an employee of the GPA (Gene Protection Agency), Logan Ramsay is tasked with tracking down and eliminating rogue gene labs that are being used to either alter human DNA or even create new species. However, when a raid goes wrong, Ramsay awakens in a hospital bed days later in unimaginable pain. Following a barrage…
Following the attack on the Capitol building in January of 2021, Donald Trump suffered impeachment for a second time in his lone presidential term. Shortly after, a committee was established to look into his role – as well as that of others – in inciting his supporters to storm Washington hoping to overturn a lawfully…
Following last year’s release of A CARNIVAL OF SNACKERY, his second collection of diary entries, David Sedaris returns with HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, his first new collection of essays since 2018’s CALYPSO. In HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, David touches on a multitude of topics including school shootings, his own mortality, the deaths of both his sister and his father, touring and…
In 2016, former Office writer and Parks and Rec co-creator Michael Schur launched his newest television show, The Good Place. The Good Place follows a group of people who due to a clerical error, after dying, end up in “the good place”. Rather than be shipped off to “the bad place”, the four characters attempt…
On a broader level, Michael Lewis’ The Premonition is about the Covid-19 pandemic and the United States’ failure to act before it became too late. On a smaller level, it is about the men and women who foretold of the challenges that the country would face in the event of an inevitable pandemic. Lewis digs…
Investigative reporter Dave Cullen spent ten years researching and compiling the definitive narrative of the April 20, 1999 massacre at Columbine High. In Columbine, Cullen focuses not only on the events that transpired that day but also what led to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold deciding to inflict a deadly attack on their peers and…
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