Authors >
Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman
Photo by Kris Drake

Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Eating the Dinosaur; 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, The New York Times Magazine, Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, A.V. Club, and ESPN, and he now writes about sports and pop culture for Grantland.com.

Related multimediaclose x

Video

1 to 6 of 6
  • 1635265513_1238290764001_26-full
    1. Helen, Alone
    00:53
    1231240021001
  • 1635265513_1238220705001_33-full
    2. Charlotte, Alone
    01:08
    1231240031001
  • 1635265513_1238219042001_24-full
    3. Tyler, Alone
    00:49
    1231219487001
  • 1635265513_1236023258001_41-full
    4. Tom, Alone
    01:24
    1231219488001
  • 1635265513_1236023256001_43-full
    5. Harkim, Alone
    01:28
    1231240028001
  • 1635265513_1215418008001_148-full
    6. THE VISIBLE MAN Trailer
    02:36
    1202143997001
See more multimedia
The Visible Man will be released on June 05, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 05, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Downtown Owl
Jan 28, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Visible Man
Nov 10, 2011
Brightcove:
Charlotte, Alone
Oct 21, 2011
Brightcove:
Harkim, Alone
Oct 21, 2011
Brightcove:
Helen, Alone
Oct 21, 2011
Brightcove:
Tom, Alone
Oct 21, 2011
Brightcove:
Tyler, Alone
Oct 21, 2011
Oct 05, 2011
Audio Excerpt:
The Visible Man
Oct 04, 2011
The Visible Man will be released on October 04, 2011 in Hardcover, eAudio, eBook
Oct 04, 2011
The Visible Man is now available in Hardcover, eAudio, eBook
Oct 04, 2011
Excerpt:
Preface from The Visible Man
Sep 17, 2011
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Chuck Klosterman appearances
Jun 08, 2011
Certain Rock Bands You Probably Like will be released on September 14, 2010 in eBook
Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010

Authors on the Web

Onion AV Club, January 26, 2012
...a fair amount of James Murphy walking his dog and making coffee. In a fascinating, philosophical interview with Chuck Klosterman that serves as the film’s framing device, Murphy talks a lot about the role of mythology in pop culture and the curious...
Village Voice, January 24, 2012
...Categories: Arguing On The Internet, Chuck Klosterman, Friendly Advice, Pazz & Jop, Taking The Bait, tUnE-YaRdS ​This morning Chuck Klosterman took to his perch at the ESPN-gone-McSweeney's site Grantland and tried to figure out why...
Four Thousand, January 19, 2012
...The Visible Man WHO Chuck Klosterman WHERE Good bookstores RRP $30 (hardcover) Chuck Klosterman‘s latest novel features an almost invisible man named Y____, an unremarkable therapist named Victoria and a “heavy dude” named Zug...
Chicago Tribune, January 13, 2012
...sports and pop culture website that ESPN launched last June with Simmons as editor. Among Grantland's contributors? Chuck Klosterman, Jane Leavy, Malcolm Gladwell, Colson Whitehead and Dave Eggers, who helped launched the site with an essay on Wrigley...
Chicago Tribune, January 4, 2012
...sports and pop culture website that ESPN launched last June with Simmons as editor. Among Grantland's contributors? Chuck Klosterman, Jane Leavy, Malcolm Gladwell, Colson Whitehead and Dave Eggers, who helped launched the site with an essay on Wrigley...
Guardian.co.uk, January 3, 2012
...offer us up a whole new geography to explore, by way of Hanif Kureishi's Black Album or Chuck Klosterman's IV or … well, you get the idea. It's a very nicely designed website; smoothly running, and with some hefty Terms of Use which suggest that this...
Missoulian, January 2, 2012
...devastating portrayal of class and cultural divisions in Los Angeles. 4. "The Visible Man: A Novel," by Chuck Klosterman; Scribner (240 pages, $25). For sustained narrative tension and for having - that rare thing - a perfect ending. 5. "Lightning Rods:...
The Rumpus.net, October 11, 2011
...Today Aimee DeLong reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s new novel, The Visible Man , here at The Rumpus. Tonight Klosterman is reading at the Booksmith at 7:30pm in San Francisco. See you there? Related Posts: A...
Unlikely Words, October 10, 2011
...I like reading Chuck Klosterman’s writing, books included. His last novel, Dowtown Owl, was his first stab at a novel, and I liked it well enough. Klosterman’s latest book The Visible Man...
In one eye, out the other..., October 6, 2011
...eternal wait for the follow-up; the wait to see if it was a fluke or what.I loved Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel, Downtown Owl. I laughed until I had tears in my eyes, and until he genuinely brought me to tears. Awesome. I’ve been awaiting his...
FrogenYozurt.Com - Literature & Entertainment, October 5, 2011
...transcriptions that catalog a relationship based on curiosity and fear,  The Visible Man  touches on all of Chuck Klosterman’s favorite themes—the consequence of culture, the influence of media, the complexity of voyeurism, and the existential...
The Daily Swarm, October 5, 2011
...CNN: (via Largehearted Boy): Chuck Klosterman’s seventh book and second novel, “The Visible Man” (Scribner), is out Tuesday. Its story is told by an Austin, Texas, therapist named Victoria Vick and centers around one...
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, October 5, 2011
...and running. Judging lit mags by their names. The trailer for Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus. CNN talks to Chuck Klosterman. The always great Around the Mall blog continues their reports on exhibits from around the Smithsonian on artifacts from around the...
Film School Rejects, October 4, 2011
...soon as possible, as it released today. If you read any one pop culture related article today, read Chuck Klosterman’s Nostalgia on Repeat over at Grantland. He explores how infinite choice in entertainment is affecting the way we look back upon days...