In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Leigh Baldwin and Sean Williams about co-writing “Follow the Leader.”
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The Women Who Built Grunge
Bands like L7 and Heavens to Betsy were instrumental to the birth of the grunge scene, but for decades were treated like novelties and sex objects. Thirty years later, it’s time to reassess their legacy.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Will Violence Save Football?
In an excerpt from his book, But What If We’re Wrong?, Chuck Klosterman wonders if the sport that defines America will survive not in spite of its brutality but because of it.
Posted inCommentary, Nonfiction, Sports
Why We Love to Hate Tom Brady
The Gwyneth Paltrow of the NFL must be stopped.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
“Modern Life Is Not Violent Enough,” Said Nobody — But They Thought It
This excerpt from Chuck Klosterman’s book “But What If We’re Wrong?” is nominally about football, and violence, but is also a prescient analysis of U.S. politics.
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Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember?
What will the history of rock music look like in 300 years, and which artist best represents the entirety of rock ‘n’ roll? Chuck Klosterman makes the case for one musician.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The Atavist, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Outside Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Chuck Klosterman on the Success of Taylor Swift, and the Word ‘Calculating’
If you don’t take Swift seriously, you don’t take contemporary music seriously. With the (arguable) exceptions of Kanye West and Beyoncé Knowles, she is the most significant pop artist of the modern age. The scale of her commercial supremacy defies parallel—she’s sold 1 million albums in a week three times, during an era when most […]
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Twitter and the Self-Censorship Society
I don’t know if I care necessarily about other people’s reactions toward opinions. And I’m not even really talking about jokes. I get attacked for opinions. People get attacked for their likes and their dislikes. And mostly they get attacked for their dislikes because to be negative in the Twittersphere is akin to hate speech […]
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The Jonathan Franzen Award for Jaw-Dropping Literary Genius Goes to… Jonathan Franzen
Say what you will about his cockiness. With the heavy weight of lit-er-ah-ture on his shoulders, the man delivered the greatest all-American novel since… since… well, you get the idea. Chuck Klosterman talks branding, ex-wives, and rock ‘n’ roll with the Updike of our time
