In Conversation With Julius Taranto

"I was nervous about it. You’d have to be crazy not to be nervous about writing about it no matter who you are,” says Julius Taranto over a video call from his home in New York City. “I happen to be white and a man, so that added extra anxiety, but in a certain sense that was part of the challenge.” Taranto is talking about his début novel How I Won A Nobel Prize, a deliciously satirical exploration of cancel culture, politics and ethics.