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Chuck Klosterman
At the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	5 June 1972 (1972-06-05) (age 36) Breckenridge, Minnesota
Occupation	Author, Columnist
Genres	Music Pop culture Sports

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972, in Breckenridge, Minnesota) is an American journalist whose work often focuses on pop culture. He was raised on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1994. After college he 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.

Klosterman was a senior writer for Spin and had a column titled "My Back Pages," formerly "Rant and Roll Over" and "### Words from Chuck Klosterman." In March 2006, it was reported that Klosterman was fired after the magazine was sold and editor-in-chief Sia Michel was replaced, along with many other staffers. He still regularly contributes as a featured columnist to Esquire and has written for GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post.

Klosterman participated in an e-mail exchange on ESPN's Page 2 with writer Bill Simmons in August 2004. In September 2005, Simmons interviewed him in his "Curious Guy" segment. Though initially recognized for his rock writing, Klosterman has written extensively about sports and began contributing articles to Page2 on November 8, 2005. The ESPN site featured his week-long blog from Super Bowl XL in February 2006, as well as a weekend-long blog covering his experience at the NCAA basketball Final Four in 2007.

As of 2008^[update], Klosterman is the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.

[edit] Books

Klosterman is the author of six books:

• Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (2001), a humorous memoir/history on the phenomenon of glam metal
• Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (2003), a best-selling collection of pop culture essays
• Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005), a road narrative focused on the relationship between rock music, mortality, and romantic love
• Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), a collection of articles, previously published columns, and a semi-autobiographical novella
• Downtown Owl: A Novel (2008), a novel describing life in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota.
• Eating the Dinosaur (2009), an upcoming collection of previously unpublished essays^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Chuck Klosterman

• Chuck Klosterman at the Internet Movie Database
• Chuck Klosterman Archive at ESPN
• Chuck Klosterman Archive at Esquire
• Chuck Klosterman: Lectures and Keynotes: The Lavin Agency
• Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs review
• Gothamist interview
• Now Magazine
• Media Bistro Q&A
• Hunting the Wild Klosterman
• Is Klosterman His Own Worst Metaphor?
• Chuck Klosterman: Articulating the Unintelligible
• September 2008 Chuck Klosterman interview with L.A Weekly about his debut novel, Downtown Owl

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NAME	Klosterman, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Klosterman, Charles John
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Author, Columnist
DATE OF BIRTH	1972, June 5
PLACE OF BIRTH	Breckenridge, Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH