Carrie Brownstein: What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Carrie Brownstein 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

That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.

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

Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality

Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗

I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2024 source ↗

Malala Yousafzai Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace

Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.

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

Tristan Harris.

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 ↗

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 ↗

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