Bestselling author and razor-sharp cultural critic whose latest book, Football, explores how America’s most powerful sporting obsession shapes our culture, identity, and national imagination
Chuck Klosterman has spent more than two decades explaining America to itself—and turning conventional wisdom upside down. Few writers can make the familiar seem so strange, the trivial so profound, or the serious so funny.
Booklist called him a “stupendously gifted essayist,” while Stephen King praised his debut for its extraordinary humor and insight into popular culture.
His latest book, Football, tackles America’s most powerful sporting obsession, exploring how the game shapes our culture, identity, and national imagination. His bestselling The Nineties, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, and But What If We’re Wrong? challenge everything we think we know about music, television, sports, history, and ourselves. His fiction is equally inventive, from Downtown Owl and The Visible Man to the acclaimed story collection Raised in Captivity.
Raised on a farm in rural North Dakota, Klosterman earned his journalism degree from the University of North Dakota. He went on to become a senior writer at Spin and contribute to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, and ESPN. He also served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine and was a founding contributor to Grantland.
Klosterman has built a career asking questions no one else thinks to ask—and finding answers no one sees coming. He can turn a football game into a philosophical debate, a pop song into a cultural revelation, and an ordinary assumption into an extraordinary argument.
Expect sharp wit, big ideas, unexpected twists—and the exhilarating possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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