Podcast Episodes featuring Chuck Klosterman

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374. - Chuck Klosterman

How Long Gone - July 27, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 766 ratings
Chuck Klosterman is a writer currently living in Portland. His great new book, The Nineties, is out now. We chat about Donald Glover stepping out topless, unusual music in the Equinox locker room, his orange-colored writer's cabin in the woods, CD long boxes, watching some track & field races wit...

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Chuck Klosterman + Billy Gil

Cinephile with Adnan Virk - April 19, 2022 10:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
Adnan and Chris breakdown HBO’s Winning Time. Billy Gil on taking your kid to the park, the worst wrestling actor ever and Dave Bautista vs The Rock. What reality TV show would you be best at? Adnan has a fascinating conversation with Chuck Klosterman about the 90’s. RIP Gilbert Gottfried. Love M...

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Best Of Think: Chuck Klosterman Returns To Fiction

KERA's Think - December 27, 2019 13:25 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 799 ratings
Chuck Klosterman is an essayist, New York Times best-selling nonfiction author and pop-culture critic. His joined host Krys Boyd in July to talk about his new book, “Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction,” a collection of fictional stories featuring far-from-normal everyday scenario...

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"Social Studies" with Chuck Klosterman, Tiffany Midge, and Tacocat

Live Wire with Luke Burbank - October 11, 2019 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 295 ratings
Host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello share stories of fictional and nonfictional dissertations; writer Chuck Klosterman explains why a puma in an airplane bathroom appears in his newest collection "Raised in Captivity;" humorist Tiffany Midge pokes holes in the notion of the “contempo...

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Chuck Klosterman on Impeaching Trump, Cancel Culture, and First Blood

Matt Lewis and the News - September 24, 2019 22:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 376 ratings
Chuck Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight books of nonfiction and two novels. He also served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years. During this podcast, Chuck and Matt discuss Donald Trump and the impeachment story, cancel culture and whether conservatism is th...

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Gist: Chuck Klosterman and the Ivory Tower

Slate Daily Feed - August 01, 2019 00:48 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
On The Gist, Jeffrey Epstein’s ideas. In the interview, when Chuck Klosterman writes non-fiction, he worries about missing some grand historical context in a way that would ruin his work. With fiction, that anxiety goes out the window— if someone reads one of his short stories and thinks somethi...

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Chuck Klosterman on How to Handle Criticism [Ep. 10]

Airplane Mode - July 29, 2019 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 126 ratings
Chuck Klosterman, author and longtime culture critic, has just released his tenth book, a series of short stories titled Raised in Captivity. Which makes you wonder: how well can a longtime writer of criticism handle when critics come for his own work? Klosterman sounds off on what it’s...

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Chuck Klosterman

BookPeople Podcast - July 26, 2019 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Chuck Klosterman's conversation with Shea Serrano live at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Tx.

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Chuck Klosterman on Trump, Twitter and cancel culture - and his new book

Recode Media with Peter Kafka - July 18, 2019 04:01 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 468 ratings
Journalist and author Chuck Klosterman is back to talk all things pop culture and politics with Recode’s Peter Kafka. Their wide-ranging chat touches on Trump, Twitter, cancel culture, keeping up (or not) with pop culture and paying college athletes. They also talk about “Raised in Captivity” Klo...

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Chuck Klosterman On The Rise And Fall Of Classic Rock

Celebration Rock - May 14, 2018 13:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 355 ratings
Last week, I released my new book, Twilight Of The Gods: A Journey To The End Of Classic Rock. It's about the generation of rock stars from the '60s and '70s that is currently in the process of either retiring or passing away. (You can check out an excerpt here.) For this week's podcast, there w...

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I Have to Ask: Chuck Klosterman

Slate Daily Feed - February 23, 2018 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
Chuck Klosterman is a writer and essayist. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses the costs of politicizing pop culture, the roots of Trump’s shamelessness, and why music is such a subjective art form.    Email: [email protected]: @IHaveToAskPod  Podcast production by...

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Chuck Klosterman

Slate Conversations - February 23, 2018 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 179 ratings
Chuck Klosterman is a writer and essayist. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses the costs of politicizing pop culture, the roots of Trump’s shamelessness, and why music is such a subjective art form.    Email: [email protected]: @IHaveToAskPod Podcast production by...

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"(Not So) Small Talk" with Chuck Klosterman, Shawn Wen, and Justin Townes Earle

Live Wire with Luke Burbank - September 17, 2017 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 295 ratings
Luke Burbank remembers the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption before speaking with two hikers stranded in the Eagle Creek Fire, writer Chuck Klosterman shares his theories about flawed thinking, author Shawn Wen describes the creative journey her fascination with mime Marcel Marceau has tak...

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Chuck Klosterman talks about Nazis, Taylor Swift and the future of journalism

Recode Media with Peter Kafka - August 17, 2017 04:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 468 ratings
Writer Chuck Klosterman talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about his new book, "Chuck Klosterman X," a collection of essays and profiles he wrote for such outlets as Esquire, Grantland and the New York Times Magazine. Klosterman says he wants people to talk about what he writes, not how he writes it...

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Why we keep getting things wrong with author Chuck Klosterman

Grow Big Always - September 05, 2016 14:17 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
Have you ever looked at a super old picture and laughed at how mistaken all those people were about what they thought the we’d spend our time doing today? I know I look at pictures of myself as a kid and can’t believe I spent my time outside vs on a phone. Doesn’t sound like you? Well then maybe ...

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#600 w/ Chuck Klosterman: Top 5 Movies Future Historians Will Remember

Filmspotting - Movie Reviews - August 26, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Godfather. 200 years from now, will anyone even remember these movies? Or are we currently overlooking the classics of the future? Writer Chuck Klosterman joins Adam and Josh on this special 600th episode to discuss his new book "But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About ...

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Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're Wrong

EconTalk - August 15, 2016 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Chuck Klosterman, author of But What If We're Wrong, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the possibility that things we hold to be undeniably true may turn out to be totally false in the future. This wide-ranging conversation covers music and literary reputations, fundamentals of science...

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Episode 423 — Chuck Klosterman

Otherppl with Brad Listi - July 20, 2016 08:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 448 ratings
Chuck Klosterman is the guest. His new book, But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past, is available now from Blue Rider Press. So great to have Chuck on the program.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Gist: Chuck Klosterman Is Wrong! (He Says.)

Slate Daily Feed - June 07, 2016 00:42 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
On The Gist, Chuck Klosterman imagines how time erodes common ideas, like what counts as a great American novel and how we decide who’s smart. His new book is But What If We’re Wrong? For the Spiel, tyrants and their cats.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#26 Chuck Klosterman

How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black - March 16, 2016 10:44 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
Chuck Klosterman is best known for his wildly popular books on music and pop cultural including the mega hits “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto” and “Killing Yourself to Live,” in which he writes about subjects he is passionate about–from heavy metal to breakfast cere...

Books written by Chuck Klosterman

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Chuck Klosterman

1 Episode - 288 pages - ★★★★ - 12.2K ratings

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Chuck Klosterman

245 pages - ★★★★ - 25K ratings

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman

374 pages - ★★★★ - 14.5K ratings