![]() ![]() It was still a present-tense existence.” In this retrospective, which examines a decade that most of his readers lived though, Klosterman acknowledges that “there is always a disconnect between the world we seem to remember and the world that actually was.” Throughout the wide-ranging narrative-from technology and the rise of the internet to key trends in music, TV, and film indelible moments in sports and significant political moments-Klosterman takes pains to ensure that references are addressed in relation to their historical context rather than through the foggy and often inaccurate lens of memory. But that deluge of data remained, at the time, ephemeral and unavailable. “Almost every meaningful moment of the nineties was captured on videotape, along with thousands upon thousands of trivial moments that meant nothing at all,” writes the author. ![]() ![]() Klosterman returns with an entertaining journey through the last decade of the 20th century. ![]()
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