Killing yourself to live sold 7,000 copies in hard cover and 8,000 on the soft cover. The book was a hit with people who were really into music writing. She got an advance of 25 thousand dollars for her first book. Now she's selling sex rugs and cocoa puffs through Spin magazine.
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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