upcoming virtual events by visiting our website at palace.com if you don t already do so, please follow us on our social media handles twitter instagram facebook and youtube. tonight we are so thrilled to welcome chuck klosterman talking about his new release the 90s a book. he is the best-selling author of eight nonfiction books two novels and short story collection raised in captivity. he has written for the new york times the washington post gq esquire spin the guardian and billboard among others. the 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition that we re still groping to understand beyond. epiphenomena like like cop killer titanic and zema. there are wholesale shifts in how society was perceived the rise of the internet 3 9 11 politics and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humility humiliating than trying to hard. pop pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything generating an odd comfort it never being certain about
Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every fouryearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Most of what academics do is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball and the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, which i am still working on, about the wanted to write this particular history of kansas. I saw a pbs show about the murders in villisca, iowa and thought i would put a couple of hours into trackin
Serial killer mystery. Brian bill james, in your new book the man from the train, your first sentence is i have long been fascinated by the notion that knowledge can be created about the past. Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every 4yearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Much of what academics do is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and more accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball in the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, whi
Tells more about that tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every four euro child every for your old child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Ist of what academics do sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball and the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, which i am still working on, about the history of kansas. About thes show murders in villisca, iowa and thought i would put a couple of hours into tracking
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