How Did You Feel in the Nineties?

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The book is about how it felt to be a person in the nineties. Cuse: "It was very surprising to meet people who seemd to share the way i looked at the world" The author says he struggled with some of the things that were common among niche cultures, but also found them hard to articulate.

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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