Review: Chuck Klosterman shifts his pop culture-obsessions to fiction in 'Raised in Captivity'

"He wasn't trying to be a jackass," begins one story in Chuck Klosterman's "Raised in Captivity," which marks the first short fiction collection by the pop culture critic. "He was trying to make conversation."

There may be no tidier way to summarize the often contrarian, pop culture-obsessed and awe-inspiringly granular writing of this longtime essayist - and Klosterman admits as much in the brief piece "Just Asking Questions."

In it, one Klosterman-esque character (known only as "jackass") interrogates the other about describing an ex's infidelity with "his best friend" and