Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Preeminent pop culture journalist Chuck Klosterman releases his finest book to date, Building on the national bestseller success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. It tells the tale of his cross-country tour of rock star death sites and his quest for love, excitement, and the meaning of death.

Chuck Klosterman considered passing away for 6,557 miles. He followed rock 'n' roll and death all the way from New York to Rhode Island, Georgia, Mississippi, Iowa, Minneapolis, Fargo, and Seattle in a rented automobile. Chuck had three romances terminate in twenty-one days: one by choice, one by accident, and one due to tiredness. He took a cocaine puff at a cemetery. He strolled across a field of beans for half a mile. He was told the reason why there aren't as many windmills as there once were by a guy in Dickinson, North Dakota. He listened to the Rod Stewart box set and the solo albums of KISS. Poisonous snakes were implicated at one time. The going becomes tough. Chuck investigated all manner of rock star deaths, from the Chelsea Hotel to the marsh where Lynyrd Skynyrd's jet crashed to the location where Kurt Cobain blew his head off. He was curious as to why stopping breathing is the best professional move a musician can make and what this meant for the rest of us.