Last week I had a phone conversation with the engaging and omni-curious Matt Crawford, whose podcast is appropriately titled The Curious Man’s Podcast. We talked about the personal sources of my new novel, family dysfunction, loneliness, fiction vs. nonfiction, E. M. Forster, Rodney King, teenage readers, video game voice acting, Mass Effect‘s awesome Jennifer Hale, the Beethoven late string quartets, astronomy, and a bunch of other stuff. Toward the end, even FDR and Churchill get in there, somehow. Matt posted the podcast today, and you can listen to it here.