Shut Up and Play the Hits about musical group LCD Soundsystem; Klosterman's extended interview with the group's frontman James Murphy is woven throughout the film. His eighth book, titled I Wear the Black Hat, was published in 2013. It focuses on the paradox of villainy within a heavily mediated culture. In 2015, Klosterman appeared on episodes 6 and 7 of the first season of IFC show Documentary Now! as a music critic for the fictional band "The Blue Jean Committee". His best-selling ninth book, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, was published June 7, 2016. It visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear in the future to those who will perceive it as the distant past. In 2021, Klosterman appeared on the podcast Storybound, backed by an original Storybound remix with Portico Quartet. His 12th book, The Nineties, debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list on February 27, 2022. Personal life In 2009, Klosterman married journalist Melissa Maerz. They have two children. Books Klosterman is the author of 12 books and two sets of cards. Non-fiction Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta (2001), a humorous memoir/history on the phenomenon of glam metal Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005), a road narrative focused on the relationship between rock music, mortality, and romantic love I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) (2013) But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past (2016) The Nineties (2022) Essay collections Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (2003), a best-selling collection of original pop culture essays Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), a collection of articles, previously published columns, and a semi-autobiographical novella Eating the Dinosaur (2009), an original collection of essays on media, technology, celebrity, and perception Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century (2017), a collection of previously published essays and features Fiction Downtown Owl: A Novel (2008), a novel describing life in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota The Visible Man: A Novel (2011), a novel about a man who uses invisibility to observe others Raised in Captivity (2019), a collection of 34 essayistic short stories, described as "fictional nonfiction" Card sets