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I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined)
by Chuck Klosterman
I just love Chuck Klosterman's writing. The concept of this book - just, like, villains - is a very vague and open-ended theme, but I loved every essay in this book (except the one about Hitler).
What I love about Klosterman's writing is how much he just *knows*. Sure, he clearly does a lot of research and he knows how to craft a great argument from various sources. But what pushes him over the edge for me is how he throws in little pop-culture nods to all kinds of things and people from all eras. He consumes knowledge and culture unlike any other writer and presents it in such a compulsively readable way.
My favourite read so far of 2019.
What I love about Klosterman's writing is how much he just *knows*. Sure, he clearly does a lot of research and he knows how to craft a great argument from various sources. But what pushes him over the edge for me is how he throws in little pop-culture nods to all kinds of things and people from all eras. He consumes knowledge and culture unlike any other writer and presents it in such a compulsively readable way.
My favourite read so far of 2019.