Review: I Wear The Black Hat
When I talked about Eating The Dinosaur, I said:
Klosterman is a man who takes ephemeral and sometimes frivolous things seriously, and then subjects them to a meticulous dissection under the light of a strong intellect. Then he composes those thoughts in a way that is compelling and diverting.
That’s an apt a description of I Wear The Black Hat as it is of Dinosaur. These essays are somewhat more thematically related, as they are all about villainy in one form or another, but I wouldn’t say that they cohere into a book-long discussion of the topic. That doesn’t trouble me much. I’ll pretty much read a pack of Klosterman essays for any reason at all.
Strongly Recommended.