Author Chuck Klosterman

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It’s safe to say we’re huge fans of his work. In 2014, he joined us to talk about I Wear the Black Hat, which examines villainy through pop culture figures like Batman, Kanye West, and LeBron James. In 2016, he talked about his book: But What if We’re Wrong, which examined how the present will be perceived in the future.

His latest, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction, is a collection of 34 short stories. It’s a bit of a departure from his earlier work, but it’s just as brilliant.

His crazy day begins before he made it big as a writer. Back in the early 2000’s, Chuck was a reporter and columnist for a local newspaper, the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio. He had just released his first book, Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta. Like most people, he thought no one important was reading it. That is until he got a pretty memorable phone call.

Trust us, this is one story you don’t want to miss. Klosterman’s new book Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction is out now.