I Was a Film Critic When I Was 24, and I Was More Confident Than I Am at Forty Nine

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"i just, i wasn't intellectually ready to write about some of the things i was writing about," he says. "I didn't understand film with the depth that was really necessary to do that in a way that was ... correct is a weird word to use." He believes his style mattered more than the substance when he was younger.

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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