Dave Eggers

That's my favorite because those are vast and really cheap.

So because I thought libraries were tracking your...

what you checked out.

I was mistaken about this for a while during my privacy anti-tech era.

So I stopped going, I stopped checking out books.

I would go to the abused bookstore adjacent so I could buy the books instead and do whatever I wanted to them.

I'm not a good library patron because I abuse the books.

I lose them.

I don't bring them back.

It's just like a weird genetic flaw.

So I realized I'm not good for you.

I'm going to save you from me.

I'm just going to buy the books instead.

And then I'll go through them and then I ended up donating them back a year later.

I grew up as a magazine kid more than anything else.

And I remember being 15 when I subscribed to the Village Voice out of Chicago suburbs.

I think I know I was the only subscriber in my town.

And that was just like access to a world I otherwise would never know.

And then when Spin started, I subscribed to Spin and Rolling Stone and I thought it was very cool.

Like I was, I had a track where I was gonna be a music writer.