Max Arbes interviews cultural critic Chuck Klosterman who has written widely as both an author of numerous book and a journalist with the NYTimes, Spin Magazine, Esquire, GQ and many others. His most recent book, Eating the Dinosaur, is a collection of essays that give platform to his unique rhetorical style. He explores the cultural landscape with unmatched wit, but an intensity that is disorienting, as he finds meanings and connections in things that for most people are by their very nature frivolous. The book includes an exploration of the ethics of time-travel, an explanation for why Germans don’t laugh when they’re inside grocery stores, and a defense for the singular greatness of ABBA.

CWVA - Chuck Klosterman - Eating the Dinosaur