Chuck Klosterman
In the NY Press this week, Mark Ames reviews Chuck Klosterman's new book, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Well, not so much the book as the book jacket photo: "Klosterman is, quite simply and almost literally, an ass. His soft, saggy face bears a disturbing resemblance to a 50-year-old man's failing, hairless back end. His tiny, red mouth is a sphincter twisting to a pained close 40 seconds after taking a brutal pounding from Peter North. To round it out, he has a mop of ironically uncombed, dyed-yellow hair and thick-rimmed glasses that look like they were placed on the ass as a frat prank, like a wig and sunglasses thrown on an old jack-o-lantern." I hate to say it, but that kind of review almost makes me sympathize with anti-snark queen Heidi Julavits.
The flip-flop king: on the importance of Chuck Klosterman [NY Press]