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Notes"At this point in my life, I’m self-aware to realize that people’s affinities for a specific team, their hometown team…is the need to feel like they’re part of something bigger than themselves. But once you’re aware of that need, how can it still be there?"Chuck Klosterman, on the emotional connection sports fans have to their teams, in The Monarch Review.
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Notes"I mean, who is indisputably qualified to tell other adults how to live? My view is that a given person creates an abstract framework for how to exist, and then he (or she) places tangible problems into that framework to see how they fit…I’m qualified because I’m alive and I’m engaged with the world."Chuck Klosterman, on being the new Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine.
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"I did not do this because I particularly like or dislike either band. I did it because other people like and dislike them so much."
-Lavin speaker Chuck Klosterman, on seeing Nickelback and Creed in concert on the same day. Via Grantland.
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The Huffington Post on how Chuck Klosterman’s critique of the Lou Reed and Metallica collaboration album Lulu may have been more influential than the record itself:
Chuck Klosterman’s barbed piece for Grantland crediting Lulu for opening his eyes to the value of pushy record execs, because artistic freedom produces “records like this,” went more viral than Lulu.
From the aforementioned Grantland piece:
As a rule, we’re always supposed to applaud the collapse of the record industry. We are supposed to feel good about the democratization of music and the limitless palette upon which artists can now operate. But that collapse is why Lulu exists. If we still lived in the radio prison of 1992, do you think Metallica would purposefully release an album that no one wants?
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NotesChuck Klosterman makes a great point about video games and hyper-velocity. New video games are always better than what came before them—which is not an argument you’d make about novels or films or virtually any other entertainment genre. Via CollegeHumor.
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NotesAmazing! During a recent lecture, pop culture speaker Chuck Klosterman is asked what he thinks about Snooki. It’s a random and oddly specific question, but Chuck is game: his answer encompasses a short history of reality television, a recommendation of David Shield’s 2010 book Reality Hunger, and a probing look at the concept of…reality itself.
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NotesChuck Klosterman’s second novel, The Visible Man, is in stores today. To accompany its release, the publishers made this: the craziest, most purely “cinematic” book trailer of the year!
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Notes"I’m much more interested in why people feel nostalgia, particularly when that feeling derives from things that don’t actually intersect with any personal experience they supposedly had. I don’t care if nostalgia is good or bad, because I don’t believe either of those words really applies."Chuck Klosterman on nostalgia, over at Grantland.
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Notes Chuck Klosterman is On Book Tour. Go See Him!
Do you love Chuck Klosterman? Yes? Of course you do. After all, he’s one of the most exciting cultural critics of our generation. Well, you’ll be happy to know that he’s posted a list of his upcoming book tour dates to his Facebook page. His new novel, The Visible Man, drops next month. Here’s the list (please doublecheck the websites of the respective locations for proper times, etc.):
OCT. 5: Public Theater in Brooklyn (w/ @john sellers). 70 N. 6th St., 8 pm.
OCT. 6: Barnes & Noble in NEW YORK (33 East 17th St.) 7 pm.
OCT. 10: Powell’s City of Books (PORTLAND). 7:30 pm
OCT. 11: Booksmith in SAN FRANCISCO (1644 Haight St.). 7 pm
OCT. 15: Boston Book Festival (w/ Kate Beaton, Gregory Maguire, and Karen Russell). 4 pm, Trinity Sanctuary.
OCT. 20: Akron Public Library (60 High St., Akron). 7 pm.
OCT. 21: Book People, AUSTIN, TX (603 Lamar). 7 pm.
OCT. 22: Texas Book Festival (Austin). TBA
NOV. 8: Magers & Quinn, MINNEAPOLIS (308 Hennepin Ave. S.). 7:30 pm.
NOV. 9: Iowa Public Library (IOWA CITY, IA). Sponsored by Prairie Lights. The evening?
NOV. 10: National Writers Series, TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN. I assume this is also at night.
