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At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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