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If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

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Joel Stein
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Journalist
Screenwriter
Edison Township
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America
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You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.
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I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.
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People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, No, I'm a writer, I don't host things. Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.
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I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with.
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I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.
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