Chuck Klosterman

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

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Chuck Klosterman has written tomes of the written word for GQ, ESPN, The Washington Post, Esquire, The Guardian, and plenty more. In 2014, he joined us to talk about I Wear the Black Hat, which examined villainy through pop culture figures like Batman, Kanye West and LeBron James. In 2016, he talked about his book: But What if We're Wrong, which examined how the present will be perceived in the future. But this time around, Chuck joins us to tell us about the craziest day of his career. Trust us, this is one story you don't want to miss! Klosterman's latest book Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction is out now.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.6	From MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.
0:23.9	Chuck Closterman writes about culture.
0:26.7	Specifically popular culture, rock bands and basketball teams and pornography and saved
0:32.7	by the bell.
0:34.4	He was a writer who wrote volumes of hot takes about popular culture before having hot
0:40.1	takes about popular culture was just what was required to work as a writer.
0:47.2	His 2003 SA collection, Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs made so many top ten lists when it came
0:53.9	out.
0:54.9	He's since positioned himself as a writer who doesn't just think about pop culture but has
0:58.8	a knack for unearthing common threads in disparate things like the Chicks, the former Dixie
1:06.4	Chicks and Van Halen, for example.
1:09.8	When he finds those threads, you, the reader, get a deeper understanding of all of his subjects.
1:17.2	His newest book is called The 90s.
1:19.1	I know what you're probably thinking when I say that there's a book called The 90s and
1:24.4	it's written by a writer like Chuck Closterman that maybe it's a celebration of lesser-known
1:30.6	sting records or I don't know, 10,000 words on the problematic nature of home improvement
1:36.5	and how it paved the way for new metal or something like that.
1:40.0	That is not what The 90s is.
1:42.1	In the book, Closterman chronicles the last decade of the 20th century and he does so
1:47.3	not as a culture critic but as a historian or maybe a philosopher.
1:53.6	It's not a book about nostalgia.
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