“When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.”

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.