{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hit Factory","title":"BONUS: Chuck Klosterman's 'The Nineties' feat. Alex Ross","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/61de1494\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5564,"description":"University of Toronto PhD candidate and writer Alex Ross joins to discuss culture writer Chuck Klosterman's latest collection 'The Nineties'. The book is a confounding, myopic work that frequently reveals both the sociopolitical blind spots of its author & the greater failures of Gen X to understand the decade's ramifications. We talk through the frenzied, dizzying construction of the book around a hodgepodge of discrete cultural markers, the books troubling lack of anything approaching a worldview, and the writer's baffling defense against what he calls Clinton \"revisionism\".\r\n\r\nFollow Alex Ross on Twitter\r\n\r\nRead David Wallace-Wells's interview with Klosterman at Vulture\r\n\r\nConsider becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month to get access to all of our premium episodes and bonus content.\r\n.\r\n.\r\n.\r\n.\r\nOur theme song is \"Mirror\" by Chris Fish","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/w3xxeT7j6QImFQd9WPi27NuU4F6pBtgBGrXYp2WG5-k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEyMTczLzE2MTMz/NTY5NjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}