Something Instead of Nothing: an examination of the journalistic interview employing interviews with
Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker, and
Ira Glass, radio producer and host
Eating the Dinosaur was positively received by critics. The Wall Street Journal discussed Klosterman's "pixelated intelligence and vivid prose," concluding, "Mr. Klosterman's relentlessly thoughtful prose makes a case that our arts and entertainment are more suffused with meaning than ever before. Even as he's fretting over the direction of the culture, his writing stands as an eloquent defense of it."[2] At
The A.V. Club, critic Samantha Nelson wrote that Klosterman's work had "matured".[3]