Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is the New York Times bestselling author of seven previous books, including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Eating the Dinosaur; Killing Yourself to Live; and The visible man. His debut book, Fargo Rock City, was the winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has written for GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, and The Onion A.V. Club. He currently serves as “The Ethicist” for the New York Times Magazine and writes about sports and popular culture for ESPN. (tillagd från Simon & Schuster)… (mer)

Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985?

Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture—and maybe even American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and really, really funny. (tillagd från Simon & Schuster)… (mer)

Chuck Klosterman is an essayist and author whose work has appeared in Spin, Esquire, GQ, the Guardian, the A.V. Club, The Believer, the Washington Post, and New York Times Magazine, for which he writes the “Ethicist” column. His nonfiction books focus on popular culture and include Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. Klosterman is also the author of two novels, Downtown Owl: A Novel and The Visible Man. His debut book, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota, received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in the subject of music. Klosterman’s newest book is a collection of essays entitled I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined). (rhbouchard)… (mer)

Chuck Klosterman is the New York Times bestselling author of seven previous books, including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Eating the Dinosaur; Killing Yourself to Live; and The visible man. His debut book, Fargo Rock City, was the winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has written for GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, and The Onion A.V. Club. He currently serves as “The Ethicist” for the New York Times Magazine and writes about sports and popular culture for ESPN. (tillagd från Simon & Schuster)… (mer)

I wear the black hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) Chuck Klosterman “One of America’s top cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly), and “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman scrutinizes pop culture, rock music, and sports, blending his analysis with self-interrogation and unbounded imagination. His New York Times bestselling books include Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Eating the Dinosaur; and The Visible Man. His debut book, Fargo Rock City, a heavy metal memoir, received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. He has written for GQ, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, A.V. Club, and many other publications, and he currently writes about sports and pop culture for Grantland.com. In I wear the black hat, Klosterman observes the complexity of the antihero and questions the nature of the culture of villainy. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (tillagd från IndieBound)… (mer)

Chuck Klosterman diskuterar Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto.

Author of Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Klosterman draws on all corners of the pop culture universe and, with deceptively simple and often hilarious writing, shows us how "pop" intermingles with our memories and our lives. Klosterman pens a popular column for Esquire and is a regular contributor to ESPN.com. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is followed by a book signing with the purchase of the book. For more information, call (404) 253-3324. (jasbro)… (mer)

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN gör reklam för Downtown Owl.; NATHAN RABIN gör reklam för The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture.; GREG KOT gör reklam för Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music.

We are delighted to welcome bestselling author, Chuck Klosterman as he reads from and signs copies of the paperback release of Downtown Owl. Klosterman will also be sharing the evening with friends and fellow authors Nathan Rabin/the Big Rewind and Greg Kot/Ripped. A booksigning will follow. (bookjones)… (mer)