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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Monday, August 22, 2005

Chuck Klosterman Reading

Friday night we went to see Chuck Klosterman read at Elliott Bay. Klosterman was in town to promote his new book Killing Yourself to Live, making this one of the first book readings I've been to where I had actually read the book before seeing the reading for it.

The reading itself was a lot of fun. In person, Klosterman reminded me a little of Quentin Tarantino's character (Jimmie) in Pulp Fiction, which made him quite entertaining to watch. Klosterman started by talking a little about the main themes of the book and then read a funny chapter chronicling his drive across Montana during the blackout of 2003. Hearing him talk about the book made me appreciate it a little more in retrospect than I did when I first read it, so I was glad I went.

During the question and answer period he mentioned that plans are currently in place to put out an anthology next year (he half jokingly suggested Chuck Klosterman IV as the title) featuring collected articles from Spin and Esquire, a novella, and some new material. Another fun nugget of information he shared was that he had originally wanted to title Fargo Rock City as Appetite For Deconstruction, but was eventually talked out of it by his publishers. Too bad, cause Appetite for Deconstruction would've been a friggin' awesome title!

posted by Jamie at 12:35 AM