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    Television: An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
    Television: An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
    Television: An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
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    Television: An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV

    By Chuck Klosterman

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    Originally collected in Chuck Klosterman IV and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about VH1.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribner
    Release dateSep 14, 2010
    ISBN9781451624908
    Television: An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV
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    Chuck Klosterman

    Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of many books of nonfiction (including The Nineties, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, and But What If We're Wrong?) and fiction (Downtown Owl, The Visible Man, and Raised in Captivity). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The Believer, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. 

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      Television - Chuck Klosterman

      Television

      An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV

      Chuck Klosterman

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