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SAUNA JOURNAL encore! FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 2006 D5 IHIS WST WEEK WEEK 1 2 1 3 2 4 5 4 6 3 7 8 6 9 8 10 5 WIS 1A5I WEEK WEEK 1 2 1 3 2 4 3 5 5 6 6 7 4 8 7 9 10 10 9 FICTION BEST SELLERS Rise and Shine, Anna Quindlen Judge Jury, James Patterson Ricochet, Sandra Brown Armageddon's Children, Terry Brooks The Afghan, Frederick Forsyth Hunters of Dune, Herbert and Anderson The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud Into the Storm, Suzanne Brockman Phantom, Terry Goodkind The Messenger, Daniel Silva NONFICTION BEST SELLERS Lies at the Altar, Robin L. Smith I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron Mariey and Me, John Groqan State of Emergency, Patrick J. Buchanan Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks Cesar's Way, Cesar Millan The World is Flat, Thomas L.

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"I haven't sold that many boolis! I'm living in a very normal apartment! I don't own a helicopter!" exclaims the writer during an interview at said apartment. The spare Manhattan space, highlighted by a big screen TV tuned to ESPN Classic and a large, framed poster of Radiohead's "Kid did indeed meet the standards of "normal." But by delving into "The Real World" and Britney Spears with as much intellectual gusto as a professor examining Wittgenstein, Klosterman has emerged as one of the country's most distinctive pop critics. Though he has his detractors (like Gawker.com, which has made him a target), Klosterman has inspired over- the-top praise that often includes "voice of a generation" superlatives. "I'm always interested in the question of why does something become big," he says. So, why has Klosterman (in a relative sense) become big? What generational vein has he tapped? "That's the thing!" he responds.

"Everyone knows that no one knows what it is!" Now releasing his fourth book, a collection entitled "Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas," the author of "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" is still more accustomed to being on the other side of a reporter's tape recorder. Klosterman, 34, grew up in Wyndmere, N.D., and cut his The Associated Press Writer Chuck Klosterman poses at his home July 11 in New York. Klosterman has emerged as the unlikely pop critic of a generation. teeth for eight years as a journalist in Fargo and in Akron, Ohio, before moving to New York in 2002 after the success of his first book, "Fargo Rock City" In New York, Klosterman soon became ubiquitous in magazines. Until earlier this year, he was a senior writer at Spin, he maintains a column at Esquire, and regularly contributes to the New York Times Magazine and ESPN.com.

'Weird period piece' It was his second book, though, that multiplied his audience considerably "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs," a collection of essays and a self-described "low-culture manifesto" has spent seven weeks on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list including this week, two years after the book's release. The book's introduction offered Klosterman's ing, sociological approach: "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of "If you're reading 'Ulysses' or watching 'Saved by the you're trying to find meaning," Klosterman says. "I don't know why you can't do that in the present tense. "What I like about 'Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs' is that it will be a much more interesting book 25 years from now, because it will be like this weird period piece from what people were actually thinking about in the present tense at the turn of the 21st century" "Chuck Klosterman IV" is a collection of mostly magazine profiles and opinionated columns.

His populist approach is reflected in a column he wrote in 2002 after the deaths of Dee Dee Ramone (of the Ramones) and Robbin Crosby (of Ratt). Klosterman sees an unfair balance to how Ramone's death received far more attention than Crosby's first major hair-metal artist from the Reagan years to die from He concludes that the "concept of good taste" is nothing more than "a subjective device used to create gaps in the intellectual class structure." "My view has always been there are lots of people in America that want to think critically about the art that engages their life," he says. "Now, there are places that definitely do that, like the New Yorker, NPR, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's. "The problem is that a lot of the subjects those publications cover, a lot of society has no relationship to. They've never listened to Yo La Tengo records.

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