“The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.”

American author and essayist

Chuck Klosterman is an American author and essayist known for writing about American popular culture, especially rock music and sports. He has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.com, and wrote The New York Times Magazine’s “The Ethicist” column. He is the author of 14 books, including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. His work often focuses on music, sports, and the way popular culture shapes everyday life. He received the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002.