Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is the author of seven books (most recently, The Visible Man and Eating the Dinosaur ) and serves as an accidental narrator of the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits . Of compiling this list, Klosterman says, “I tried to be as honest as possible, which makes my selections a little more obvious and predictable than I would have liked. But I suppose I am an obvious, predictable person.”

Biography via Criterion.