Culture Writer, What Do You Do With That?

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Criticism has gravitated toward the most commercially popular things, he says. "I don't think it's possible for someone to be a generalist critic like i was and just sort of pursue what's interesting to them" As an adult you do less in your life as a culture writer than when you were younger,. But that doesn't mean you write about my life any more; I'm not sure if there is anything else out there worth writing about.

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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