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Also known as Charles John Klosterman

American author and columnist

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Born
5 June 1972
Works
121

Top works

  • The Peanuts Papers
  • Sexe, drogues et pop-corn
  • Awe-Inspiring Beauty of Tom Cruise's Shattered, Troll-Like Face
  • Chuck Klosterman X
  • Passion of the Garth

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1972-06-05

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1,401
Total plays
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Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman (born June 5, 1972, in Wilkin County, Minnesota) is an American pop-culture journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist. He was raised on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1994. After college he was a journalist in Fargo, North Dakota and later an arts critic for the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, before moving to New York City in 2002. Klosterman was a senior writer for Spin and had a column titled "My B

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Quotes

  • Important things are inevitably cliché.
  • Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.
  • Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.
  • This is the kind of shit that would prompt Tyler Durden to hit somebody in the face.
  • Whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.
  • Were there really this many women in 1985 saying to their husbands, "Gee, honey, I'd love to have random strangers masturbate to a jpeg image of me deepthroating a titanium dildo, but there's no medium for that. Guess we'll have to watch 'Falcon Crest.'

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