Chuck Klosterman

It is funny to me how when people talk about the magazine world of the 90s or whatever, they're always talking about expense accounts and how this guy did, you know, he was able, he had the expense of suit or whatever.

It's what they always focus on.

But that wasn't what it was for me.

It was like I wanted to write anything.

And I wanted what I wrote to be seen by people and I wanted to work at the highest level of this.

And that's what it seemed like magazines and a handful of newspapers were like.

It is like I mean, I've asked this to other people and this seems like an adversarial question.

But do you in any way have regrets that you stopped writing?

Because it's so that's that's something that's like.

You know, I may be too rigid.

Like I can't really change.

I still am doing, I'm writing this.

Many people would say like, well, this book, you should make it into a 10-part podcast or it should be like, it should have been a sub stack or should, but I want to do this.

So it's like, what, why did this, why did you do that?

You know, this might be like one of like the kind of the rare situations where maybe like our age does impact things a little bit.

Because when I was at newspapers and I've mentioned this many times, it's just it's kind of funny and it's also kind of sad.

It's like we used to have conversations like if only we knew what stories were actually being read online.

all our questions would be answered.

All we can do now is use our best judgment.

If we actually had statistics, it would be so great.