{"product_id":"x-saves-the-world-isbn-9780143115151","title":"X Saves the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eRead Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this simultaneously hilarious and incisive \"manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos,\" Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the \"Smells Like Teen Spirit\"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called \"slackers\"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.\"I loved this book. . . . It's impassioned, very quick on its feet, dense with all the right allusions, funny, and in the end actually very moving.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Nick Hornby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Ever wonder what became of Generation X, those ironic slackers wedged between the paunchy, tie-dyed boomers and their smug offspring, the millennials? Gordinier's first-person manifesto starts with a thumbnail sketch of '90s disillusionment and ends with a passionate call for social activism.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003eJeff Gordinier is the author of \u003ci\u003eX Saves the World\u003c\/i\u003e and the Editor-at-Large at \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He lives in the New York area and has written for a variety of publications, including the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003ci\u003e, and PoetryFoundation.org. Nobody, including Jeff, is quite sure of how to pronounce his last name.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300127559909,"sku":"NP9780143115151","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143115151.jpg?v=1767744647","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/x-saves-the-world-isbn-9780143115151","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}