Though initially recognized for his rock writing, Klosterman has written extensively about sports and began contributing articles to ESPN's on November 8, 2005. His magazine work has been anthologized in Da Capo Press's Best Music Writing, Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has written for GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. From 2002 to 2006, Klosterman was a senior writer and columnist for Spin. Career Īfter college, Klosterman was a journalist in Fargo, North Dakota, and later a reporter and arts critic for the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, before moving to New York City in 2002. He graduated from Wyndmere High School in 1990 and from the University of North Dakota in 1994. He grew up on a farm in nearby Wyndmere, North Dakota, and was raised Roman Catholic. Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Klosterman. He was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002. Klosterman is the author of twelve books, including two novels and the essay collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto. He has been a columnist for Esquire and and wrote "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine. Charles John Klosterman ( / k l oʊ s t ɜːr m ɛ n/ born 1972) is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture.
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