Ian McElvoy is a best-selling author. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair and elsewhere. He says he regrets not being able to enjoy his good fortune when it was at its peak. Ian: "New york is really the only place in america where writers are famous"
Chuck Klosterman is a journalist and the author of eleven books, including his latest, The Nineties.
”Selling out… was very much injected into the way I understood the world…. And I am now supposed to do all of these interviews and all of these podcasts promoting this book. And because it's a book about the nineties… it feels incredibly uncomfortable to me…. I think young people assume that selling out is only about money: that if you try to do something to make money, that means you're selling out, because the word ‘sell’ is in there. But that's not really how it was. I mean, what you were selling out was this idea of your integrity. And what your integrity was, was somehow not doing anything to make other people like you.”
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