Deadspin (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Chuck Klosterman plugs his Dinosaur book by doing an interview with the good people at American Polymath blog. Okay, truth be told, this interview gave me a reason to commission another napkin...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by Andrew Frisicano The Hold Steady @ Rothbury Festival in July (more by Graeme Flegenheimer) Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, along with author Chuck Klosterman, will be the featured guests at this month's Radio Happy Hour...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
If anyone other than Chuck Klosterman had attempted to get Eating the Dinosaur published, they would have failed. This inevitable rejection would not be the fault of the writer, but of two distinct realities that solidify Klosterman's place in the cultural canon: the continued existence of Chuck Klosterman himself, and of the multitude of people a) who blog for free...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Considering Chuck Klosterman kicks off his new book of essays, Eating the Dinosaur, with a piece about the inherent lack of truth in interviews, especially his own, it only makes sense to skirt the straight-up Q&A and angle for something the man might not want to lie about. Sure, there’s a risk Klosterman might not take the bait ("I don't feel it's my obligation...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
At Flavorpill, Chuck Klosterman lists albums to beat writer's block. The Winston-Salem Journal profiles the multi-talented author/actor John Hodgman. Singer-songwriter Neko Case talks to Seacoast Online. Paste interviews Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara. The Guardian offers a literary quiz...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
(photo from millerjont’s Flickr ) The L Magazine : I’m not particularly well-versed when it comes to journalism ethics, but if I was a writer who also had a part-time job as, say, a server at a catering hall, and I found myself working at a wedding between, say, Chuck Klosterman and Melissa Maerz, I would like to think I would refrain from treating that wedding as material...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
In Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs , Chuck Klosterman writes that he empathizes with Billy Joel’s complaints of being inexplicably depressed and unimpressed with success. While plenty has changed in pop culture and Klosterman’s own life since his first essay collection was published in 2003, it’s clear from reading Eating The Dinosaur that he still feels ambiguous...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Rock star Craig Finn and CBS' Late Show With David Letterman writer Tom Ruprecht will adapt rock & roll writer Chuck Klosterman 's memoir for the big screen. Entitled " Fargo Rock City ," the memoir recounts the writer's adventures as a heavy metal fan in a tiny North Dakotoa town. The singer and the television writer bought the film rights to the book, and Klosterman...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Well won't this just be full of complete metal-loving geekery (via Punknews.org ): Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn is co-writing a script for a film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman's seminal first work Fargo Rock City along with Tom Ruprecht, a writer for the Late Show With David Letterman . The book is a collection of essays about Klosterman's love of metal while growing up in...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn is co-writing a script for a film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman's seminal first work Fargo Rock City along with Tom Ruprecht, a writer for the Late Show With David Letterman . The book is a collection of essays about Klosterman's love of metal while growing up in North Dakota. In a comment to THR Ruprecht downplayed the musical aspects somewhat...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Craig Finn, front man of The Hold Steady, and Tom Ruprecht, longtime writer for Late Night With David Letterman, have acquired the rights to bestselling memoir Fargo Rock City, written by Chuck Klosterman, and plan to co-write and produce a feature film based on the book. Klosterman will also lend a hand in producing the film. The book is about a bunch of nerdy teenage metal-heads...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The first essay in Chuck Klosterman ’s excellent new collection Eating The Dinosaur concerns the inherent lack of real truth to be found when interviewing famous people. As a guy who’s been on both sides of the journalist’s tape recorder, he should know, and in the essay, he does what he generally does best—asks himself a pointed but sort of unanswerable question,...
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
English majors, take heed. Epic essayist and journalist Chuck Klosterman will be at the Union Square Barnes & Noble tonight at 7 p.m., promoting his new book Eating the Dinosaur. Also the author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Klosterman has become a leading voice in modern pop culture literature, thus his mass appeal to hipsters [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Eating the Dinosaur , the latest collection from cultural essayist Chuck Klosterman, travels familiar thematic terrain for the 37-year-old New York writer, touching on pop music (Garth Brooks), TV shows ( Mad Men ), and sports (undervalued eighties Houston Rockets center Ralph Sampson). But the book’s most provocative essay is its final entry: “FAIL,” a defense of infamous...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Erlend Oye of Kings of Convenience talks to PopMatters about the band's new album, Declaration of Dependence. The A.V. Club interviews Chuck Klosterman about his new essay collection, Eating the Dinosaur. The Louisville Courier-Journal examines the growing appeal of young...
