Comment by ggfdh
I’ve only ever seen Klosterman do friendly interviews. I think his work would improve if it was challenged more.
I’ve only ever seen Klosterman do friendly interviews. I think his work would improve if it was challenged more.
I've heard about him but weirdly this Football book is the first thing I've "read" (technically listening to the audiobook).
I can totally see the appeal.
He's kind of on the 3rd or 4th act of his career...I think he started on sports, really made his name in music/pop culture, moved on to be New York Times Ethicist for a while (!) and is back to sports. IMO he asked good occasionally hard questions of pop stars. One thing I love about him is at heart he is a true superfan of the disciplines he covers so is not a "critic" per se, but that may steer things more toward the positive because of that. He helped me realize many things about music I loved growing up in the '80s that I couldn't quite articulate at the time.