Jason Bateman

Because, well, let me tell you why I wrote on the novels, because nobody writes on the novels, and I didn't have to do that much work and research, because I could just make the shit up myself.

All right.

Yes.

No chat GPT cheating.

It was an open field.

That was Princeton.

And then I took a year off and I traveled and I didn't really know what I wanted to do at all.

I just knew I wanted to be a writer.

And then I thought – I applied for a Mellon Fellowship, which I got from the Mellon Foundation, which –

They were trying to lure people that might go into money-making businesses and steer them towards academia.

So it was for people to get PhDs who might not be able to afford staying in school.

So I got one of those and I went to Yale.

And I thought that I'd become a professor of English literature and then write novels in my summer times.

Wow.

I've written four or five novels.

Wow.

And I just had a book of poems come out.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah.

Oh, no, this was in the States, this one, but go ahead.