A review by leelee_draws_pictures
I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains by Chuck Klosterman

5.0

Chuck Klosterman is like a cheerful David Foster Wallace: brilliant, knowledgeable, verbose, and potentially overanalytical. He connects social themes from a wide array of sources. There's music (his specialty), history, sports, politics, and pop culture in general. Some of them open up brand new areas of inquiry I'd never considered; others, like the essay on Sandusky/Paterno (something that strikes close to home -- I live in Central PA) are like a scalpel to the knots of worry I'd had in my own mind. I don't know how he does this, again and again, but this book is a fascinating inquiry into the nature of knowledge, posturing, and morality. I strongly recommend it.