Talking To A. Natasha Joukovsky About Men

The odds of filling out a perfect NCAA bracket are one in nine quintillion, two hundred twenty-three quadrillion, three-hundred-seventy-two trillion, thirty-six billion, eight-hundred-fifty-four million, seven-hundred-seventy-five thousand, eight hundred and eight. This is according to Phil Fayeton, anyway, the doomed protagonist of the very funny new novel Medium Rare, by A. Natasha Joukovsky. The statistic is a recurring bit—it is what you get if you consider every game a 50/50 toss-up, which is not accurate in a seeded tournament.