You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed,

for you are the only animal,

who can think, who can reason, who can read.

Hi, this is Michael Silverblad, and welcome to Bookworm.

My guest today is Tamajanoitz, the author most recently of the male cross-dresser support group,

author as well of Slaves of New York, American Dad, and a Cannibal in Manhattan.

I thought I'd begin by asking you about your favorite comic writers.

Well, that's off the top of my head something I'm going to instantly blank out on,

but I suppose Mark Twain is one of my favorites and a lot of Dickens.

Joyce Carrey the Horse's Mouth was one of my favorite books,

but now I'm just drawing a blank.

I had the feeling that you liked Evelyn Waugh.

I do.

I do.

I mean, particularly the later books when they're a little less...

Brittle?

Yeah.

Because of the characters who appear in why I was thinking really of the first

to kind and fall, these strange doodle bugs appear and start immediately to spill their life stories

at a moment's notice onto the hero there.

And that seems to be one of your deftest comic poise,

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