It’s obvious where Chuck Klosterman came up with the premise for his novel The Visible Man. Old Red Beard’s 2009 book of essays Eating the Dinosaur includes a chapter about watching through the window a…
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Klosterphobia
Here’s a confession: I did not read Chuck Klosterman’s entire book Eating the Dinosaur. This slighting came with his permission, nay, his insistence. Klosterman busts through the fourth wall in his essay about football to…
Book Links: Bad Sex & Good Books editon
Minn Post’s Amy Goetzman writes about the popularity of writing programs in trying financial times and talks to Amy Shearn a U of M MFA Graduate about her first novel, How Far is the Ocean…
More Downtown Owl
I really would like to write more about this book and display my academic prowess in dissecting Chuck’s message to the world. However, there is no message in this book to dissect. Is it a…
Book Links: I promise after today no more Klosterman (and there’s other good stuff here too)
The Downtown Journal interviews Klosterman about Downtown Owl and some of his answers give me a heartattack. For example: “you got to make sure it’s interesting, entertaining and clear. It has to be interesting in…
Despite few charms, Downtown Owl is annoying as hell
In a Pop Matters interview Chuck Klosterman says, “It was harder to write fiction, but maybe that was only because I’d never done it before. I can’t remember if writing Fargo Rock City was hard…
Name that omniscient unnamed narrator
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman follows a few months in the lives of 17-year-old level-headed, slightly depressed, Mitch — a mediocre athlete who’s ideal bedroom would be as sterile as a hotel room. Julia, the…
Book Links: A Chuck Klosterman extravaganza
GalleyCat has an interview with Jeffrey Friedman director of “Howl” a movie about the life and times of poet Allen Ginsberg. When I was in college I memorized large chunks of the poem. So enamored…
The literary equivalent of Rocktober
A few weeks ago over at How Was The Show, the musicgeeks were getting all hopped up about all the great music coming to Minnesota in October, I mean Rocktober. I was just updating the…