Raised in captivity : fictional nonfiction / Chuck Klosterman.

Raised in captivity -- Execute again -- Toxic actuality -- How can this be the place? -- The truth about food -- Every day just comes and goes -- Blizzard of summer -- Of course it is -- Skin -- The perfect kind of friend -- Cat person -- Experience music project -- Pain is a concept by which we measure our god -- What about the children -- (An excerpt from) a life that wasn't mine -- Not that kind of person -- Rhinoceros -- The enemy within -- The secret -- Trial and error -- Tricks aren't illusions -- Fluke -- If something is free the product is you -- Never look at your phone -- Reality apathy -- Reasonable apprehension -- Just asking questions -- To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die, except that it actually is -- Tell don't show -- Slang of ages -- Slow pop -- [ ] -- I get it now -- The power of other people.

"A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song 'Blizzard of Summer' becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why reality is mathematically unraveling. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination."--Provided by publisher.