Chuck Klosterman and the study of culture

ChuckKlosterman from Wikipedia Here's what Michael MacCambridge says about Chuck Klosterman's Eating the Dinosaur.

Neil Postman, once argued–in the title of one of his books–that we are "amusing ourselves to death."  But Mr. Klosterman's relentlessly thoughtful prose makes a case that our arts and entertainment are more suffused with meaning than ever before.  Even as he's fretting over the direction of the culture, his writing stands as an eloquent defense of it.

This would put Klosterman in a league with Greil Marcus and other writers who are prepared to take popular culture seriously, to exercise a brute (not a fashionable) curiosity in its pursuit, and find enthusiasms there even when the intellectual's code discourages such a thing. 

References

Anonymous.  n.d.  Chuck Klosterman entry.  Wikipediahere.

MacCambridge, Michael.  2009.  Drenched in Popular Culture.  Wall Street Journal.  October 24-25. 

Marcus, Greil 2008. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: 5th Ed. Plume. 

Klosterman, Chuck.  2009.  Eating the Dinosaur.  Scribner.

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