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Episode 474: Chuck Klosterman

Feb 2, 2022

01:05:55

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What Is the Central Problem in Society?

01:52

Is There a Choice in Selling Out?

02:39

What's the Hardest Thing About Writing a Profile?

02:00

Introduction

4min

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

2min

How Do You Find Your Voice?

2min

The Best Way to Write - Is There a Style?

2min

How Did You Feel in the Nineties?

5min

I Was a Film Critic When I Was 24, and I Was More Confident Than I Am at Forty Nine

2min

How to Write Magazine Articles and Interviews

5min

The Interviewer's Chair

3min

What's the Hardest Thing About Writing a Profile?

2min

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Selling Out

1min

11.

Is There a Choice in Selling Out?

3min

12.

What Is the Central Problem in Society?

2min

13.

The Choice Wasn't a Complete Fiction

2min

14.

Killing Yourself to Live

2min

15.

Is New York Really the Only Place in America Where Writers Are Famous?

4min

16.

Do You Have a Negative Legacis?

2min

17.

What Is Your Perception of Your Work?

2min

18.

Clavio Unlocks the Power of Your Customer Data

4min

19.

What It Means Is That Everything Is Retro

2min

20.

Is the Internet the Ultimate Acceleration of Culture?

2min

21.

The Molasses of Cultural Thought

3min

22.

Culture Writer, What Do You Do With That?

5min

23.

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

2min

24.

I Didn't Think of the Morality or Ethics of Doing This

4min

25.

Wele NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast

2min

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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