But What If We Re Wrong Thinking About The Present As If It Were The Past By Chuck Klosterman
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But What If We're Wrong?
Author: Chuck Klosterman
language: en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date: 2016-09-15
What if everything we are most certain about turns out to be totally wrong?
Summary of Chuck Klosterman's But What If We're Wrong?
Author: Everest Media,
language: en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date: 2022-07-21T22:59:00Z
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Book of Lists, a book that my sixth-grade class compulsively thumbed through, was a collection of lists compiled by three writers. It was idiotic predictions about life on Earth in the coming fifty years, but some were surprisingly accurate. #2 The Book of Predictions is a collection of predictions that was released in 1980. It is interesting to note that most of them focused on the future status quo of global politics: the United States and the Soviet Union were on the brink of nuclear war, and no one imagined that landline telephones would eventually be replaced by cell phones. #3 The problem with the retrospective insight approach is that it requires a successful futurist to anticipate what can’t be anticipated. In order to move forward, we’re forced to use a different mind-set called Klosterman’s Razor.
Novel Sounds
Author: Florence Dore
language: en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2018-06-12
The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American authors native to rock’s birthplace began to write fiction about the electrification of those ballads, translating into literary form key cultural changes that gave rise to the infectious music coming out of their region. In Novel Sounds, Florence Dore tells the story of how these forms of expression became intertwined and shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Dore considers the work of Southern writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside the music of Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and Southern literature. Along with rock pioneers, Southern authors drew from blues, country, jazz, and other forms to create a new brand of realism that redefined the Southern vernacular as global, electric, and notably white. Resurrecting this Southern literary tradition at the birth of rock, Dore clarifies the surprising but unmistakable influence of rock and roll on the American novel. Along the way, she explains how literature came to resemble rock and roll, an anti-institutional art form if there ever was one, at the very moment academics claimed literature for the institution.