I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman: I Wear the Black Hat

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 19, 2013

Chuck Klosterman shares his observations on the complexity of the antihero and why he’s drawn to villains. In I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) he asks: When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying? He blends cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals.

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