Carrie Brownstein: What do you fear most?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Carrie Brownstein

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Hans Zimmer Film composer

A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗

James Norton English actor

Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗

Being confined in a straitjacket.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Slugs. And planetary annihilation.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗

Willful ignorance.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Driving solo across the country from New York to Washington State.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 August 2018 source ↗

Tristan Harris.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.