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b'This week on \'State of Wonder,\' we bring you the second show we recorded live at Wordstock, this time with the culture writer Chuck Klosterman, who pulls back the curtain on his celebrity profiles, and two ace authors, who discuss their thrilling new novels.

Want more books? Check out the first show we recorded at Wordstock this year, with the creators of the hit podcast and novels "Welcome to Night Vale" and the seriously hilarious poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico.
Chuck Klosterman Explains the 21st Century of Pop Culture - 1:26

What do Taylor Swift, Tim Tebow, and the search for free will in \\u201cBreaking Bad\\u201d have in common? They are all pop culture casualties of Chuck Closterman, one the keenest critical minds writing today. Growing up in North Dakota, Klosterman cut his teeth in the Midwest before heading to New York to write for the \\u201cNew York Times,\\u201d \\u201cGQ,\\u201d \\u201cGrantland,\\u201d and practically everyone else. His 2003 essay collection \\u201cSex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-Culture Manifesto\\u201d launched him into the culture writing stratosphere, and he\\u2019s published several collections and two novels since. Now he\\u2019s out with his tenth book: \\u201cChuck Closterman Ten: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century.\\u201d He takes us behind the scenes on his essays, plus talks about his recent move to Portland.

Katie Kitamura\'s Psychodrama About a Wife\'s Search for Her Husband - 19:27

In a landscape scorched by wildfire and summer sun, a woman, frozen with grief, comes searching for her estranged husband. Death of their marriage muffles her like a thick veil; she can barely see what\\u2019s going on around her. So begins Katie Kitamura\\u2019s elegant, suspenseful novel, \\u201cA Separation.\\u201d It\\u2019s a great read for the dank winter days, full with burned landscapes and arid Mediterranean atmosphere.

Hannah Tinti\'s Coming of Age Mystery - 33:52

Every parent is a mystery to their child. But few bear the secrets of Samuel Hawley. His scarred body maps out a life of theft, guns and murder, but for his daughter Loo, they\\u2019re just scars. That is, until they settle into the New England hometown of her deceased mother and she begins to question her father\\u2019s past and what truly happened to her mom. Such is the central mystery for Hannah Tinti\\u2019s second novel, \\u201cThe Twelve Lives of Samuel Holly.\\u201d Ann Patchett called it \\u201cone part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade, and twelve parts wild innovation.\\u201d

Tinti is one of those gloriously creative writers, whose plots sparkle with suspense and emotion. Her best-selling debut novel, \\u201cThe Good Thief,\\u201d was an American Tall Tale of sorts, starring an orphan and a con man at odds with a mouse trap magnate. Tinti also co-founded and edits the the award-winning magazine \\u201cOne Story.\\u201d'