PositivePopMattersNot only is Chuck Klosterman one of those writers whose distinctive style gets lodged in your brain, but one whose ideas initiate fresh and often zany manners of thinking you might not have encountered if you hadn\'t read him. His brand of junk-food intellectualism weaves together disparate pop-culture subject matter in prose that\'s both blunt and conversational ... On first read, some stories are so spit-take funny that the fundamental questions driving them are almost obscured by their downright nuttiness ... The short-fiction format employed throughout the book offers Klosterman a fresh way to write on many of the same subjects he tackles in his nonfiction, so it makes sense that the best stories in Raised in Captivity are the ones that most closely resemble thinly-veiled essays. The front cover deems these stories \'Fictional Nonfiction\', a clunky term that seems too much like a far-reaching marketing device. Really, this is just Klosterman being Klosterman, witty and perceptive in his doggedly consistent way. The approach is different, but the voice and ideas presented are undoubtedly his, couldn\'t come from anyone else, and this is where the book\'s value lies.
Hanif Abdurraqib
PositivePopMatters\"Fandom aside, this book is on point. In Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, Abdurraqib blends his talents as both culture critic and personal essayist ... The vantage from which [Abdurraqib] dissects Tribe\'s legacy is rooted in the heritage of black music and delivered from the present cultural moment, making Go Ahead in the Rain, much like Tribe\'s music, capable of remaining relevant for decades to come.\
