"I try to recede into the background and almost get people to forget that i'm there," says Lena Dunham. "A interviewing is an imperfect process, yet it is the best process we have in getting people to sort of respond to what other people think of them" The artist has been profiled many times a many people have interviewed her. But she doesn't see herself as somehow separate from the experience.
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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