What Was the First Time You Started Writing in the Chuck Closterman Voice?

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"I couldn't believe it, that they paid people to write for thi college newspaper. So i was like, well, i want to go to the football games anyways." "It just seems like that's how it always was. I mean, you know, i mean, some of it was kind of arbitrary and capricious," he says about his early days as a journalist.

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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