CHUCK'S KLUSTERFUN LIFE CONTINUES WITH "THE NINETIES" BOOK

 Former BJ pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman (1998-2002), was interviewed by the New York Times about his book, “The Nineties.”

Minnesota native and University of North Dakota graduate Charles John Closterman, who will hit 50 on June 5, grew up on a farm near Wyndmere, North Dakota.

 

He came to the BJ after beginning his newspaper career in Fargo, North Dakota.  Like another former BJ pop culture critic, David Bianculli, Chuck left 44 E. Exchange Street for New York City.

That led to senior writer at Spin magazine,  Esquire, GQ, New York Times Magazine (as ethicist, whatever the hell that is), The Believer, The Washington Post and guest professor for literature in Germany at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig.

 

His other books include “Killing the Dinosaur,” "Downtown Owl," "Chuck Klosterman IV," "Killing Yourself to Live," "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs,"  “Fargo Rock City,” “The Visible Man” and “But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past.”

Chuck played himself on a 2007 "E:60" episode on ESPN, in 2007's "Britney: Off the Rails," a 2006 episode of "Amazon Fishbowl With Bill Maher," in the 2005 "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" and the 2004 "Spinal Tap Goes to 20."

He was executive producer for the 2009 movie, "Killing Yourself to Live," based  on Chuck's book.

 

Paula Stone Tucker, former BJ State Desk reporter who got her assignments from me and rescued me for 17 years after My Mona Lisa wife for 48 years passed away in 2004, tipped me off about Klosterman in 2010 while Paula was in New York City taking in Broadway shows and visiting her son, Patrick Tucker, who plays a mean saxophone when he’s not at his day job making sure the paperwork for major corporation mergers isn’t screwed up.

 

Seems Chuck was in Brooklyn helping friend Jason Hartley promote Hartley's book, "The Advanced Genius Theory."

 

Authoring books is as natural as breathing for those who have worked at the BJ (in alphabetical order so I don’t slight anyone):

Chuck Ayers
John Backderf
David Bianculli
Lary Bloom
Regina Brett
Mark Dawidziak
Phil Dietrich
Bob Dyer
Hal Fry
David Giffels
Glenn Guzzo
Jim Jackson
Chuck Klosterman
Andrea Louie
Steve Love
Dick McBane
David L. Morgan Jr.
Russ Musarra
Jack Patterson
Melanie Payne
Terry Pluto
Mark Price 

Donald Rosenberg
Roger Snell
Jane Snow
Paula Stone Tucker

Jabe Tartar
Phil Trexler
Thrity Umrigar
Stuart Warner
Michael Weinreb
B.J. Widick
Brian Windhorst
Abe Zaidan

 

Hell, you could open a library with nothing but literary works by people who once earned a living at 44 E. Exchange Street. 

And if Klosterman, Pluto and Dawidziak decided to do a 3-man book tour and brought samples of all their literary works with them, they would need a moving van -- nah, a 16-wheeler semi -- to contain all the books.