I figured it was medieval lit, not advanced evil. How hard could it be?

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. This is a whole new level of nerd.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Trisha Bobita. And this is The Nerdat Podcast. This week we have an interview with author Meg Wollitzer.

We love her new novel

The Interestings, which came out this spring and dives into the lives of a group of teens

at an arts summer camp and how they navigate their talents or lack of talent and love lives

or lack of a love life all the way into adulthood. And our intern Claire will tell us how she

learned some superhero skills at her summer camp.

But first, Nerdat contributor and my pop culture spirit guide.

Rebecca Polson has created a cocktail inspired by the interstings.

And just a hint, if you're terrible at verbal instructions or ounces, feel free to follow along

on Nerdatpodcast.com. We posted a set of how-to jiffs there.

You mean GIFs? Jiffs. Oh, man, of how-to jiffs there. You mean gifs?

Jifs? Oh man, I can't have this fight again. Anyway, you can learn more about how to make Rebecca's

campfire old fashioned on our website. She promises it will taste like boozy childhood. Boosy childhood.

Yeah. We're going to do a little campfire old fashion, which is excellent and stiff and sweet and smoky,

and you only have to dirty one glass to make it, which I think is thrilling because I hate doing dishes.

So we're going to be using bullet bourbon, which is one of my favorite bourbons,

because just quick boo-school school the two major types of

American whiskey are bourbon and rye and the major difference between bourbon and rye is

how much is made from corn and how much is made from wheat so bourbon is mostly corn and has very

buttery sweet cornbreadty qualities, whereas rye is made from

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