Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
File:Chuck Klosterman in Minneapolis, Minn. on Sept. 20, 2009.jpg
Born Charles John Klosterman
(1972-06-05) June 5, 1972 (age 51)
Breckenridge, Minnesota, United States
Occupation Author, columnist
Nationality American
Genre Music
Pop culture
Sports
Spouse Melissa Maerz (2009–present)

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972) is an American author and essayist who has written books and essays focused on American popular culture. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine. Klosterman is the author of eight books including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto.

Early life

Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Klosterman.[1] He is of German and Polish descent.[2] He grew up on a farm in nearby Wyndmere, North Dakota,[3] and was raised Roman Catholic. He graduated from Wyndmere High School in 1990 and from the University of North Dakota in 1994.[citation needed]

Career

After college, Klosterman was a journalist in Fargo, North Dakota, and later an arts critic for the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, before moving to New York City in 2002.[4]

Klosterman was a senior writer for Spin and wrote a column titled "My Back Pages" (formerly "Rant and Roll Over" and "### Words from Chuck Klosterman").[5] He has written for GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.[6]

Klosterman participated in an e-mail exchange on ESPN's Page 2 with writer Bill Simmons in August 2004.[7] In September 2005, Simmons interviewed him in his "Curious Guy" segment.[8] Though initially recognized for his rock writing, Klosterman has written extensively about sports and began contributing articles to Page 2 on November 8, 2005.[9] The ESPN site featured his week-long blog from Super Bowl XL in early 2006,[10] and a weekend-long blog covering his experience at the 2007 Final Four.[11]

In 2008, Klosterman spent the summer as the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.[12]

In 2009, Klosterman married journalist Melissa Maerz.[13]

In 2011, Klosterman joined Grantland.com, a sports and pop culture web site, which was conceived and led by ESPN's Bill Simmons. Klosterman will be a consulting editor.[14]

He also appeared in the first three episodes of the Adult Swim web feature Carl's Stone Cold Lock of the Century of the Week, discussing the year's football games as an animated version of himself and trying (unsuccessfully) to plug his book as Carl cuts him off each time. He vanished after the third episode, with Carl giving the explanation of "He had to go do a book tour and also he didn't like how I kept calling him 'pencilneck'".

In 2012, Klosterman appeared in the documentary film Shut Up and Play the Hits, as the interviewer for an extended interview with the film's subject, LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy that is featured throughout the film.

Books

Klosterman is the author of eight books and a set of cards.

Non-fiction

Essay collections


Novels

  • Downtown Owl: A Novel (2008), a novel describing life in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota
  • The Visible Man (2011), a novel about a man who utilizes invisibility to observe others[17]

References

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  4. ↑ Chuck Klosterman, "Rubber City Meets the Crossroad," The Village Voice, 15 October 2002.
  5. ↑ Cityfile, "Chuck Klosterman," Gawker, 3 February 2008.
  6. ↑ Cityfile, "Chuck Klosterman," Gawker, 3 February 2008.
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  12. ↑ American Studies Leipzig, "New Picador Professor Chuck Klosterman," 28 May, 2008.
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