“I know, in the coming years, there’s going to be a lot of writing about this period,” Klosterman says. “So part of it was almost like, ‘I’m going to do this again, but instead of being subjective, I’m just going to be as objective as possible.’ “I was like, ‘I did that book, and I just wasn’t ready to do it in a way that I felt like would still feel good to me years later,” he says. Two decades later, Klosterman says he felt “minor, mild regrets” about the way his younger self had portrayed the ’90s. I think people were drawn to that book in some ways because it did seem like a kind of polemic about the culture that had just occurred.” “I wrote that book ‘Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs,’ which came out 20 years ago now, and that was in many ways a ’90s book too, except that it was purely my personal experience,” he says. “The Nineties” came to Klosterman partly out of a desire to complement or correct an earlier book on the decade, he says. “I looked at that thing like 40 times.” A second look “I put a lot of effort into that,” Klosterman says, laughing when complimented on his close scrutiny of a 32-second YouTube video of the AOL sign-on. And, of course, Klosterman deals with the rise of the internet in several essays including one that opens with the best-written description you will ever read of the sound of a dial-up modem connecting to America Online.
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