Writing a Memoir - I Would Never Write a Book Like That Again

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I don't regret having done that, because i'm happy how things worked out. But it's what i did then, and i wouldn't do it now. The idea of doing cultural criticism that was, in many ways, memoir writing. That was absolutely the reason i was able to appeal to people who didn't normally read cultural criticism. I will never write about myself that candidly or write about other people in my life casually.

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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