The Onion AV Club has an entertaining interview with Chuck Klosterman:
The first essay in Chuck Klosterman’s excellent new collectionEating The Dinosaur concerns the inherent lack of real truth to be found when interviewing famous people. As a guy who’s been on both sides of the journalist’s tape recorder, he should know, and in the essay, he does what he generally does best—asks himself a pointed but sort of unanswerable question, then examines it. (And brings pop culture into the mix to provide evidence and/or anecdotes.) So “Why do I give interviews?” and “Are people honest when they’re giving interviews?” are rolled around and left unanswered, and we’re all the better for it. It’s just the first salvo in a great set of pieces that also touches onWeezer, Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines, and ABBA. (Also: some sports.) So instead of doing a straight-up interview and then wondering whether Klosterman was telling the truth—or worse yet, rating the quality of our questions—we thought it’d be fun to keep the conversation centered on essentially one topic, in honor of Halloween. So Klosterman spoke with The A.V. Club about fear: his worries about pandemic disease, running over motorcyclists, and whether technology will end us all.
I'm reading the new Klosterman, "Eating the Dinosaur," right now. It's as good as always.
Posted by: Eric | November 01, 2009 at 03:08 AM
I'm going to order this in my next Amazon shipment. I think I'll pick up Downtown Owl as well. I always find him entertaining. Did you see his Beatles re-issue review-masterful!
Posted by: MC | November 02, 2009 at 11:42 AM