Prelude: I like Chuck Klosterman. Okay, I like Chuck Klosterman A LOT. He’s an author and essayist whose work focuses on American pop culture. He has this rare skill of teetering the line between the reader believing he is truly passionate about the subjects he is writing about and the reader believing he is full of shit and is just being facetious. Ultimately, I think he cares, but the fact that I can’t conclude this with any degree of certainty is what makes his writing so advanced. I still...

Prelude: I like Chuck Klosterman. Okay, I like Chuck Klosterman A LOT. He’s an author and essayist whose work focuses on American pop culture. He has this rare skill of teetering the line between the reader believing he is truly passionate about the subjects he is writing about and the reader believing he is full of shit and is just being facetious. Ultimately, I think he cares, but the fact that I can’t conclude this with any degree of certainty is what makes his writing so advanced. I still...