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Chuck Klosterman's Unusual Place in the Literary Worldnew
Chuck Klosterman occupies an unusual place in the literary world. His popular essays are neither purely journalistic nor academic nor critical.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Wyatt Williams |
10-12-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chuck Klosterman
Whither the Album?new
Chuck Klosterman says Chinese Democracy is the format's last hurrah. Kanye proves him wrong.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
12-08-2008 |
Music
Chuck Klosterman Attempts Fiction in 'Downtown Owl'new
The standard complaint about Klosterman as a pop-culture essayist is that he is a literary slacker, stubbornly quotidian: He can write about the familiar with fresh insight, but he refuses to write about anything other than the familiar.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
09-17-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl
Debut Novel Depicts Chuck Klosterman's Former Small Town Lifenew
Downtown Owl is Klosterman’s first novel. Though he manages to name-drop ZZ Top, the Rolling Stones, and The Price is Right, he mostly offers a fictional supplement to his debut book, Fargo Rock City: Owl is a small North Dakota town of 800 in the early 1980s, devoid of pop culture.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
09-04-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl
Hunting the Wild Klostermannew
Things about the pop-culture writer that are true, things that might be true, and something that isn’t true at all.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
10-05-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
This Book Could Be Your Lifenew
Chuck Klosterman discusses pop culture and why his days of writing memoirs are over ... for now.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
06-09-2006 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Author Talks About Life, Death, Doing Blownew
After quite possibly the most morbid road trip across America, Chuck Klosterman grapples with his inner demons of post-modern self-awareness and the definiton of cool.
Dig Boston |
Arna Wilkinson |
08-10-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
