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	Chuck Klosterman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972 in Wilkin County, Minnesota) is an American pop-culture journalist, critic, and essayist.
		Klosterman was a senior writer for SPIN Magazine and had a column titled "My Back Pages," formerly "Rant and Roll" and "### Words from Chuck Klosterman." In early March 2006, it was reported that Klosterman left or was fired after the magazine was sold and editor-in-chief Sia Michel was replaced, along with many other staffers.
		Klosterman began contributing his own articles to Page2 on November 8, 2005; the ESPN site featured his week-long blog from the Super Bowl in February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chuck_Klosterman (309 words)

	HIGH BIAS -- Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once upon a time, way back in 1983, Chuck Klosterman, a skinny fifth grader living 65 miles south of Fargo, North Dakota on the family farm in extremely rural Wyndmere, made a revelatory discovery: his older brother's cassette copy of Mötley Crüe's second album Shout At the Devil.
		Klosterman's a smart guy—he knows the glam metal of the 80s was meant to be disposable, meant to shift a respectable amount of units and then disappear into the recesses of a young man's wild youth.
		Klosterman recognizes that, and he articulates as much with insight and humor.
	www.highbias.com /reviews/20010610_books.html (838 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chuck Klosterman is the embodiment of the "Urban Hipster." He is pretentious, he uses a wealth of knowledge about Popular Culture and a keen wit to make friends and influence people.
		Maybe I choose to hate Chuck Klosterman because I'm trying to posit myself as having DIY punk-rock ideals, while he is a sell-out and I am not.
		I think the truth is that I love Chuck Klosterman because I am a self-indulgent pompous fuck who loves himself way too much, but I say I hate him because he has, like, a ten-year head start and has totally beaten me to the punch and I am soooo totally jealous of him.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /articles/2006.02.21-eat_poop_with_me_chuck_klosterman.htm (1323 words)

	Bookslut \| Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
		However, the plot is all but subsumed by Klosterman’s musings on girls he’s slept with, girls he wishes he could sleep with again and girls he likes the eyebrows of but has never even kissed.
		Klosterman makes the 1980s cult classic Heathers into a philosophical work of art when he discusses the scene where Winona Ryder’s character writes in her diary.
		Klosterman might have been able to get away with this were he not so clearly aware of it.
	www.bookslut.com /nonfiction/2005_07_005962.php (495 words)

	ESPN Search: chuck klosterman
		Chuck Klosterman is the author of "Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story" and is a senior writer for Spin magazine and columnist for Esquire.
		Chuck Klosterman learned the hard way: Making your fantasy football league too real is not a good idea.
		Chuck Klosterman says the Texans convinced themselves into selecting Mario Williams, but they forgot one thing: Reggie Bush is better.
	sports.espn.go.com /keyword/search?searchString=Chuck_Klosterman&rT=sports (257 words)

	Killing Yourself To Live by Chuck Klosterman: Reviews
		Klosterman might be headed for Hornby, Eggers, and Sedaris status; Killing Yourself to Live should be his breakout book.
		Klosterman goes flat is at the coup de grâce stage: he seldom succeeds in wrapping up his anecdotes and arguments with a good closing insight or tag line.
		The plot is all but subsumed by Klosterman’s musings on girls he’s slept with, girls he wishes he could sleep with again and girls he likes the eyebrows of but has never even kissed.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/klostermanchuck/killingyourselftolive (704 words)

	Chuck klosterman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	New York Press
		Klosterman and his type are one of the reasons why I went into exile (I’m writing this from Moscow).
		Klosterman’s anti-inspiration lie is quickly followed by the first of many flip-flops on conventional cliches that he thinks give his essays depth: "In and of itself, nothing really matters.
		In other words, Klosterman and his girlfriend would be as crazy as Sid and Nancy if they were shooting smack on a stained mattress in the Chelsea and not sitting in their parents’ basement watching tv, giggling and drinking chocolate milk.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=8768 (2628 words)

	Heavy metal umlaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Journalist and author Steve Almond coined the term "spandex and umlaut circuit" in 2002 to describe the heavy metal touring scene.
		Rock critic Chuck Klosterman subtitled his 2001 book Fargo Rock City with A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta.
		Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag was previously in Würm
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut (3029 words)

	eBay Guides - Chuck Klosterman A Guide to Chuck Klosterman Books
		Chuck Klosterman has quickly become one of my favorite writers and I've since been fighting to get my hands on each of his books (see below).
		Chuck Klosterman is a cultural critic who is as hip as his witty, as sharp as he is funny, and as twisted as he is well spoken.
		Chuck Klosterman is a senior writer at Spin Magazine and a columnist for Esquire.
	reviews.ebay.com /Chuck-Klosterman-A-Guide-to-Chuck-Klosterman-Books_W0QQugidZ10000000000020033 (488 words)

	Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story - Chuck KlostermanScribner
		In many ways, this book to me, was a final closure to these singers and songwriters as I needed to know where their final goodbyes were, for better or for worse.
		Instead, Chuck Klosterman has a road trip where he waxes about his many dysfunctional relationships with women in between destinations.
		Chuck Klosterman can't write about anything but himself, and let me tell ya...he's not interesting AT ALL.
	www.drive-fly.com /flydrive-0743264452.html (1171 words)

	Pop Culture Magazine - Entertainment - Sex, drugs and Chuck Klosterman
		Klosterman kicks off the book with a brief chapter on his hatred if Coldplay because a girl he was dating chose to fly to the band’s first U.S. appearance rather than spend the weekend with him.
		The irony is that one could argue that Klosterman already is marginally famous, at least amongst certain members of the literary cognoscenti and Williamsburg hipsters.
		Klosterman points out that “The problem is that the “Harry-Met-Sally” situation is almost tragically unbalanced.
	www.popculturemag.com /entertainment/bookreviews/chuck.html (798 words)

	NOW Magazine - The Arts in Toronto, AUGUST 25 - 31, 2005
		Klosterman is lying in bed in a hotel somewhere in Texas and has just woken up, so it would probably be easy to make him agree to anything.
		Klosterman spent his childhood in rural North Dakota, close to but not even in the town of Wyndmere, which has a population of 500 people.
		Chuck Klosterman is a fucking genius, mainly because I agree with almost everything he says.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2005-08-25/cover_story.php (1388 words)

	Chuck Klosterman Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Chuck Klosterman's first book, Fargo Rock City, is ostensibly about heavy metal—but, according to David Byrne, it's actually about "how music feels, how media-saturated culture feels." The New York Times calls the book "an act of cultural bravery" and "easily the most implausible (and comically agile) piece of wildcat criticism in years."
		Chuck Klosterman, a brilliant chronicler of popular culture and noted magazine journalist, is uniquely positioned to tell us what this all means.
		Klosterman is not a detached academic who deconstructs pop culture at arm's-length with a deadening sterility.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/chuckklosterman.html (394 words)

	New York Post Online Edition: Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These are the Klostermaniacs, the ever-growing Cult of Chuck that includes bookworms, bloggers and even uber-goober Seth Cohen on "The O.C.," who hailed Chuck's geek wisdom on an episode last season.
		Klosterman is showing nerds it's OK to be cool, and hipsters it's OK not to be.
		Klosterman can't complain about having a legion of fans that are at times a little too buddy-buddy for comfort.
	www.nypost.com /living/26095.htm (942 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pop culture afloat in Klosterman's 'Cocoa Puffs' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		So claims Spin magazine's Chuck Klosterman in his new collection of button-pushing essays, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, a book for Generation Xers who ingest massive amounts of pop culture and take perverse pleasure in dissecting it.
		When he's at his best, Klosterman is like pop culture's version of Michael Moore, a zealot who simultaneously amuses and provokes.
		Klosterman is clearly savvy and insightful enough to plumb the deeper meanings of Saved by the Bell.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2003-09-03-cocoa-puffs_x.htm (448 words)

	Amazon.com: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto: Books: Chuck Klosterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But Klosterman goes deeper than that, often employing his own life spent as a member of the lowbrow target demographic to measure the cultural impact of his subjects.
		Chuck Klosterman is a writer for Spin magazine, so he clearly knows pop culture and can write quality essays.
		In the forward, Klosterman assserts that, at times, he feels as though "everything is completely connected." Unfortunately, he is not adept enough to make all of his essays into a cohesive whole (as other reviewers have noted).
	www.tinyurl.com /5re2a (2100 words)

	Swoon// mp3 video discussion news// » I Got Drunk With Chuck Klosterman: A Novella
		My favorite interlude in Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs is Klosterman’s discussion concept entitled “Monkees = Monkees,” which he and his friends came up with when they were stoned out of their minds.
		Chuck said that the White Stripes are Moonlighting.
		The biggest stumper for Klosterman has been Nirvana; as far as era and popularity go, they match right up with Seinfeld, but their tones are too dissonant for the match to work.
	swoon.us /?p=59 (1546 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota: Books: Chuck Klosterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the final chapter Klosterman, now an arts critic for Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal, quotes a friend's definition of a "guilty pleasure" "something I pretend to like ironically, but in truth is something I really just like" to explain how he really feels about glam metal.
		Klosterman's book is so persuasive and sure-headed -- even as it describes typical teenage doubt and identity crisis -- that it inspires both admiration and astonishment that nobody has tried it before.
		The early '80s were indeed a burgeoning time for up-n-coming metal bands, and Klosterman was correct in pursuing their history from a true metalhead's viewpoint.
	www.amazon.ca /Fargo-Rock-City-Odyssey-Dakota/dp/0743406567 (2221 words)

	Chuck Klosterman, index.php - Gawker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What bothers Chuck is not the fact that the movie is being made, but how the movie is being made: based on the input of (wait for it) bloggers.
		There was a time when huge, iconic print portraits took as their subject the worthy, those few who defined their times and bestrode the world confident in the knowledge that their actions and utterances had the power to change lives.
		Klosterman just might be the most important writer of our generation, mining a deeper-than-expected meaning from the seemingly disposable Gen X culture crush of MTV, '70s reruns and The Real World.
	www.gawker.com /news/chuck-klosterman/index.php (1214 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, by Chuck Klosterman, Paperback
		Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman — with an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and a seemingly effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter.
		Spin magazine senior writer Klosterman (Fargo Rock City, 2001) prefers to "figure out what it means to be alive," he explains, in the context of "Pamela Anderson and The Real World and Frosted Flakes." Generally speaking, his m.o.
		Although he covers wildly varied topics, Chuck Klosterman's lively, stylish collection of essays speaks for and largely to one generation: Gen X. The author focuses not just on pop culture, but instead on pop culture's detritus.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0743236017&itm=1 (1197 words)

	Amazon.com: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story: Books: Chuck Klosterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But Klosterman is nothing if not articulate about music, and his light, humorous touch often reveals meatier themes and revelatory insights about not only music but also life and death, particularly his own life.
		Chuck Klosterman's first two books were highly entertaining if sometimes exasperating melanges of pop culture and memoir.
		The premise that Chuck's going to go an Epic road trip (on Spin magazine's dime) to tour famous American rock and roll death sites proves to be mere pretense for an extended trip into Chuck's head as he drives cross-country.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743264452?v=glance (2440 words)

	SPIN.com: Q&A: Chuck Klosterman
		A preoccupation with precisely those subjects is exactly what makes Chuck Klosterman's new book of (slightly tweaked) nonfiction infinitely readable.
		Killing Yourself to Live follows Klosterman on a cross-country journey where he makes pit stops at infamous sites of rock star death, working on a story that appeared in Spin's December 2003 issue.
		Klosterman sat down with SPIN.com to talk about New York, the state of rock criticism, and -- what else -- Foghat.
	www.spin.com /features/exclusives/2005/07/050721_klosterman (858 words)

	Fargo Rock City
		Klosterman brings up a lot of things I'd forgotten, like the old "no keyboards" argument among metal fans.
		In one of the book's most insightful chapters, Klosterman addresses Guns n' Roses and why they were such hot shit to small town boys.
		I'll tell Klosterman how I dug his insights on sex and hard rock - like the whole part about Fugazi being loud and inaudible and therefore not dumb, but your Typical Hair Metal Band is loud and sings about sex and is therefore dumb.
	www.readexiled.com /fargo.htm (822 words)

	Amazon.ca: Killing Yourself to Live : 85% of a True Story: Books: Chuck Klosterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Along the way, Klosterman opines on rock music, never afraid to offend—as when he interprets a Radiohead album as a 9/11 prophecy or reminds readers that before Kurt Cobain's suicide, many preferred Pearl Jam to Nirvana.
		As a writer for SPIN and ESQUIRE, Chuck Klosterman focuses on the subject of rock 'n' roll and pop culture.
		Klosterman's story brings the listener from a graveyard, where he snorts cocaine, to the site of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash to the place where Kurt Cobain committed suicide, all the while humorously commenting on his great love for the three women in his life.
	www.amazon.ca /Killing-Yourself-Live-True-Story/dp/0743264452 (873 words)

	Article :: Book Review - Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In an incredible feat of economy and unintentional selfawareness, Klosterman, while writing about his 2003 move to New York City, sums up the main problem with his most recent 230-page book in seven words on the first page: he isn’t qualified to write it.
		At least Klosterman doesn’t project any saccharine nostalgia in his final chapters, which are devoted to the death of Kurt Cobain.
		But for the last fifteen pages (and most of the 210 some-odd pages before that), you can’t help but feel that although Klosterman possesses a keen eye for unconventional subject matter and a uncommonly honest voice, he is somewhere that he doesn’t belong at all.
	www.yale.edu /gunslinger/articles/dec05/chuckklosterman.html (611 words)

	s h o t g u n r e v i e w s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Klosterman holds forth on Pamela Anderson as the Gen-X Marilyn Monroe, why Saved by the Bell is awful yet compelling, how interpersonal relationships are affected by the engineered unreality of reality TV, and how the Celtics-Lakers rivalry “reflects every fabric of male existence”, and manages to back it up.
		He’s also got a great collection of anecdotes and tells them well, but I think his real talent is being able to pull a variety of seemingly-unrelated elements into a cohesive concept.
		I’ve seen a variety of other reviews for the same book, and they all describe Klosterman as either “ironically self-aware” or “un-ironically self-aware,” which surely must be significant, though I couldn’t tell you how.
	www.shotgunreviews.com /reviews/sexdrugscocoa.html (415 words)

	Hardrock Haven - Reviews of your Favorite Hardrock Artists: Chuck Klosterman - Killing Yourself to Live Book Review
		Chuck Klosterman lives in a world rife with beautiful, intelligent women, who all happen to know the melting point of Einsteinium — yeah, they are that smart.
		In his new book titled “Killing Yourself to Live, 85% of a True Story,” you’ll meet many of those women that he shares his life with and watch him fumble through a love triumvirate as he travels across the country, penning his emotions and thoughts as he visits rock and roll tragedy sites.
		Klosterman makes plenty of bold statements throughout the book — like Rod Stewart is the best male singer of the rock era — and almost nonchalantly defines and explains an entire genre in just a few words.
	www.hardrockhaven.net /reviews/misc/Chuck%20Klosterman%20-%20Killing%20Yourself%20to%20Live.php (526 words)

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