Interested parties would do well to saunter over to Book Riot’s Reading Lives podcast, should they wish to hear an interview with me about reading P.G. Wodehouse for the first time, hating The Mists of Avalon, and getting your copy of the Divine Comedy confiscated at Christian sports camp during a very specific summer.

My guest on this episode is Mallory Ortberg, co-founder of The-Toast.net and author of the forthcoming Texts from Jane Eyre. We talk about reading Wodehouse for the first time, getting your Dante confiscated at church camp, being disappointed with a book that everyone else likes, and much more.

See? I also talk about reading Kierkegaard with my dad at Boston Market, and how I used to steal all his chicken skin while he tried to explain Johannes de silentio (I think I got the better end of the deal, as I ended up with a rather garbled understanding of Christian existentialism but a great deal of chicken skin). It’s a lovely interview; a good time was had by all and you should listen to it.