John Updike: Tedious Suburbanite or Literary Great?
he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck (Published 2017)
nytimes.com
“The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of a diminution of personality.”
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Klosterman is like pop culture’s version of Michael Moore, a zealot who simultaneously amuses and provokes…. Savvy and insightful.” —USA Today
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
his career makes it clear that he is indeed, in the literal Cahiers du Cinema sense, an auteur, willing to make the sorts of sacrifices for creative control that real auteurs have to make—choices that indicate either raging egotism or passionate dedication or a childlike desire to run the whole sandbox, or all three.