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Name: Killing Yourself to Live
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Author: Chuck Klosterman

📘 Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman

In "Killing Yourself to Live," author Chuck Klosterman embarks on a 6,557‑mile road trip across the United States, visiting sites tied to iconic rock‑musician deaths. During 21 days on the road, he examines the cultural mythology of dying to live in the music scene, while his own relationships unravel. From the Chelsea Hotel to the crash site of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane and the squat where Kurt Cobain once lived, Klosterman juxtaposes the personal with the prophetic, probing how those who "stop breathing" shape the cultural offers of success and tragedy.

First publish date: 2005

Genre: Memoir/Travel Memoir

Authors: Chuck Klosterman

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