X Saves the World How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking Hardback - 2008

Media reviews

'I loved this bookit's impassioned, very quick on its feet, dense with all the right allusions, funny, and in the end, actually very moving.'
Nick Hornby, The Believer

"I think Jeff Gordinier might be the secret love child of Tom Wolfe and Douglas Coupland. This book is a fascinating, thought-provoking and funny look at America today. It's about more than Gen X, it's about everyone."
--A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically

"This is the passionate defense that our much-maligned generation deserves."
--Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad

"X Saves the World is a great read-fast, funny and incisive. It's a thrill watching Jeff Gordinier spin his extensive cultural Rolodex and if I weren't so ironic and detached myself, I'd suggest anointing him the new voice of our generation-in-exile."
--Jess Walter, author of The Zero

"When future archeologists recover the artifacts from our failed civilization, may they at least find some reference to the forgotten sliver of a generation chronicled here, who dared to consider - even just consider - whether doing something other than selling out was a viable option."
-- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion

"As a boomer through and through, I was skeptical: a bunch of 35- to 45-year olds formally famous for their most excellent slacking could now save art, music, and activism from the corporate monoculture? But in this passionate, beautifully written ode to the generation that even stereotypes forgot, Jeff Gordinier has made me believe."
--Leslie Savan, author of Slam Dunks and No-Brainers

"As a Marine, I hate slackers. As an X-er, I hate manifestos. As an MBA, I hate jokes. This is a slacker manifesto filled with jokes. But it doesn't suck. In fact, it's pretty great."
--Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away