Who are some good essayists on pop culture? This guy is way too

pop culture is gay and so r u

>>7639071
You can find merit in pop culture, but people who do nothing but talk and think about it are morons.

>>7639089
You're honestly such a fucking dildo if you can't see the reasoning for understanding pop culture

>>7639093
And you're an anal bead if you can't tell the difference between understanding something and being obsessed with it.

>>7639089
you participate in pop culture, anonymoose

>>7639089
>people can find merit in pop culture
>but people who do nothing but think about it are morons
O I am lauffin

Klosterman is a slob. In one of his books he literally talks about only owning a bed, because of social expectations -- that we would rather just make a nest of blankets and clothes in the corner of his room.

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>>7639093
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>>7639112

I read Klosterman in high school a few years ago. I still enjoy it, even if he lacks a certain kind of substance

>>7639071
Really liked Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
Also a fan of Wells Tower's essays.

>>7639071
Umberto Eco has a great essay book on this. I believe it's called Apocalypse Postponed in English.

And yeah, Klosterman... he's entertaining, I do like to read him once in a while, but he has little intellectual depth. His problem, I think, is that he does not only write about pop culture, but lives through it almost completely. He knows a shitload about it, of course, but only from the inside out, either as a fan or a hater; never as an academic observer. In fact, he seems to have almost no academic background.

>>7639244
This is sort of what I was trying to put into words.

I find contemporary/pop culture extremely interesting, but I want to see it analysed intellectually. Not exactly clinically or scholarly, but something like DFW, who is maybe somewhere in the middle. The meeting of low and high brow.