DNA: Congrats on the book! Starfucking has been your lifelong obsession. Is this healthy? Matthew Rettenmund: Starfucking is healthy if you maintain a sense of humor about it.
I am, of course, thrilled to meet someone famous who has meant something to me, but I worked for years as a teen-magazine editor and have encountered countless famous people professionally so I know how not to be a total lunatic around them. I am, however, fascinated by starfuckers who are so into it they have no sense of irony about it.
Also, it’s important to have some things in your life that are just unabashedly, indefensibly fun and escapist.