What Is Your Perception of Your Work?

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When i was young, say, when was in college, if somebody would go up to you and say, like, what would you rather have? Would you rather have a lot of success as a writer right now and be famous, but then forgotten? Or would you rather, you know, kind of toil away for 30 years and maybe never have a lot. of success, but then your writing would live forever?" "i think the the older i get, the more limited the meaning of my writing is," he says.

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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