Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman

Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972 in Breckenridge , Minnesota ) is an American author and journalist who works primarily in the field of popular culture .

Chuck Klosterman grew up on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota . After graduating from the University of North Dakota (1994), he worked as a journalist in Fargo and later as an art critic in Ohio. He has lived in New York City since 2002. Klosterman has worked for Spin magazine and is currently a columnist for Esquire , GQ , New York Times Magazine , The Believer, and the Washington Post . In the USA he is also known as a sports journalist, in Germany his fame goes back to the previously translated books "Fargo Rock City" and "An 85% True Story".

In the summer of 2008, Klosterman was a Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the American Studies Leipzig Institute and in this capacity he also gave several readings in Germany (Leipzig, Stuttgart, Cologne).

Works

  • Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta. (2001)
    • Translation: Fargo Rock City. German by Franca Fritz and Heinrich Koop. Rockbuch Verlag Buhmann & Haeseler, 2007, ISBN 978-3927638389 . (Humorous Memoirs and a History of Heavy Metal)
  • Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story. (2005)
    • Translation: An 85% true story. German by Adelheid Zöfel. Fischer, 2006, ISBN 978-3596165216 . (Travel story about the relationship between rock music, mortality and love)
  • Downtown Owl: A Novel. (2008)
    • Translation: Night Owls. Novel. German by Adelheid Zöfel. S. Fischer, 2010, ISBN 978-3100383129 . (Novel about life in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota)
  • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. (2003), a best-selling collection of original pop culture essays
  • Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. (2006), a collection of articles, previously published columns, and a semi-autobiographical novella
  • Eating the dinosaur. (2009), an original collection of essays on media, technology, celebrity, and perception
  • The Visible Man. (2011), a novel about a man who uses invisibility to observe others
  • I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined). (2013)
  • But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past. (2016)
  • Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. (2017), a collection of previously published essays and features

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picador Guest Professor for Literature

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personal data
SURNAME Klosterman, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klosterman, Charles John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Breckenridge , Minnesota