Chuck Klosterman

Like you see this with bands all the time.

It's like they mature.

Paul McCartney matures and he makes, you know, Flaming Pie.

And he's like, this music is better than the early Beatles.

Like no one else thinks that.

But he does.

Because what he looks back on is something that was like, that's when I was 22 or whatever.

It was just natural.

Now I'm actually thinking about it.

But what's in the early Beatles recordings is this kind of aliveness that you could never be.

replicated or whatever.

So if I wrote this book, maybe, I mean, 20 years ago, for sure, it would have been more confrontational, more bombastic.

It would have been more an attempt to persuade people to believe what I believed, as opposed to being like, this is an interesting way to think about this idea.

It may contradict the way you think about it now, but it's

Just consider this because it may sort of shift the way you sort of view this reality, this reality of football.

So, like, I think it would be terrible, to be honest.

That's a really hard thing to answer because I've been doing this long enough with having the good fortune of having a certain level of notoriety or readership that I think it's now very difficult for anyone to read my books in a straight way.

I am always most interested in reviews in other countries because they're not, they don't have an idea of what I am or what I'm supposed to represent or, I mean, particularly the people in the media industry or in the publishing industry.

Like, those are people who sort of have a fixed idea of, like, what I do and how I am.

I'll tell you what.