Chuck Klosterman Biography

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BornJuly 5, 1972
Age51 years
Early Life and also Education
Charles John "Chuck" Klosterman was born on June 5, 1972, in Breckenridge, Minnesota, USA. Increased on a ranch in close-by Wyndmere, North Dakota, Klosterman attended Wyndmere High School. After secondary school, he enlisted at the University of North Dakota, where he began to sharpen his writing abilities and also discovered his enthusiasm for journalism. He graduated in 1994 with a level in journalism and also a minor in English.

Start of Journalism as well as Music Critic Careers
Following his university graduation, Klosterman began creating for papers such as the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and also the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio. His job as a music critic began in earnest when he started composing for Spin Magazine. It was throughout this time around that Klosterman started to develop his distinctive composing design, mixing popular culture references with narration and individual anecdotes.

Rise to Prominence
In 2001, Klosterman launched his initial book, "Fargo Rock City", which was an amusing as well as informative exploration of heavy steel songs through the lens of a self-proclaimed metalhead. The book received essential honor as well as developed Klosterman as a leading voice in music journalism.

For many years, Klosterman expanded his range past just music, composing essays and also short articles on different aspects of pop culture, such as film, sporting activities, as well as television. His posts have shown up in remarkable magazines like GQ, Esquire, as well as The New York Times Magazine.

Klosterman came to be an elderly writer as well as essayist for ESPN's sports and popular culture web site, Grantland, where he discussed numerous topics ranging from basketball to fond memories. His unique perspective as well as appealing creating style gained him a devoted following.

Books and Podcasts
Klosterman has created numerous very successful publications, including "Sex, Drugs, and also Cocoa Puffs" (2003), "Killing Yourself to Live" (2005), "Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People as well as Dangerous Ideas" (2006), and "But What If We're Wrong? Considering today As If It Were the Past" (2016).

He has additionally ventured into podcasting. Klosterman co-hosted the podcast "Do You Know Who Jason Segel Is?" with comedian and also writer Tom Scharpling, and he has actually appeared as a guest on various podcasts such as "The Bill Simmons Podcast", "The Soundtrack of Our Lives", and "The Watch".

Tv as well as Film
In addition to his composing and also podcasting jobs, Klosterman has actually worked as a specialist and also functioned as a panelist on television shows such as "The Approval Matrix" on SundanceTV as well as VH1's "SuperGroup".

Klosterman was a co-producer as well as film writer for the computer animated tv pilot "Metalocalypse", a comical series regarding an imaginary hefty steel band. He likewise co-wrote an episode of the television program "Portlandia" in 2015.

Personal Life
Klosterman married reporter and also non-fiction author Melissa Maerz in 2009. The couple invited a daughter named Violet in 2014. The household lives in Brooklyn, New York, where Klosterman remains to create and also discuss popular culture, sporting activities, as well as whatever in between.

Our collection contains 24 quotes who is written / told by Chuck.

Related authors: Jason Segel (Actor), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

24 Famous quotes by Chuck Klosterman

Small: The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, Im totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is
"The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself"
Small: I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories ev
"I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story"
Small: Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basical
"Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me"
Small: Its just that whats important there is different there than whats important is here. Here, people care
"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media"
Small: If youre doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, youre not going t
"If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend"
Small: Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would alway
"Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything"
Small: The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends w
"The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll"
Small: I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I cant give peop
"I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to"
Small: Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldnt get them. So I had t
"Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available"
Small: Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot c
"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite"
Small: A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of
"A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story"
Small: In Fargo, they say, well, thats a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was writt
"In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper"
Small: Ive been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if youre walking down the street and some
"I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird"
Small: At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, w
"At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice"
Small: The essays are different because ultimately its things Im interested in, and Im really just writing abo
"The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism"
Small: The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldnt afford a home computer - I had to get
"The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad"
Small: Youre trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortabl
"You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview"
Small: I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable.
"I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and try to rewrite it"
Small: A whole bunch of months passed and I didnt hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a
"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age"
Small: To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesnt mea
"To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before"
Small: When youre writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You cant swear, you have to use short
"When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day"
Small: It didnt seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didnt know what the steps w
"It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility"
Small: I keep saying the word weird over and over again, but its the only way I can describe it
"I keep saying the word "weird" over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it"
Small: I grew up on a farm, and we didnt have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasnt inundated with
"I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it"