1. Chuck Klosterman is essentially one person, a somewhat androgynous American man named Chuck Klosterman. This is his nth column. I get the sense that asexuality is part of his hesher aesthetic, because I just looked at the Chuck Klosterman Wikipedia page and noticed that the wiki writer put a lot of effort into never using orientation-specific pronouns.

2. Klosterman was formerly employed as a journalist, if that sort of thing matters to you.

3. The writing on Grantland is focused around its percussive elements. You could read much of it, but I can’t imagine a social situation in which anyone actually would. There are ideas, but they’re not overused. It doesn’t read anything like PJ O’Rourke, but it reads like a site made by someone who believes PJ O’Rourke was awesome. It’s a sophisticated interpretation of primitive journaling, vaguely akin to Tucker Max (but less funny and with more looping).

4. I have no idea what these columns are supposed to be about. The sentences are superficially indecipherable. There’s one column (“The People Who Hate Tim Tebow”) where Klosterman briefly and convincingly sings like Robert Plant. There’s another column (“What Ever Happened to the Triangle Offense?”) where he repeatedly screeches the phrase “What’s that about?” and it might be the single most grating literary moment of 2011.

5. Chuck Klosterman is not avant-garde, but he is experiental. He has a cultic, chaotic, stand-alone quality that makes him worth investigating. It’s popular. But it will never be smart.