I listen to a bunch of podcasts. I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I listen to a lot of They Might Be Giants. When you combine this with the audiobooks I listen to, the shows I go to and the paper books I read, you start to spot a pattern. A slightly sinister pattern...

  • The Illiternati

This originally started as a connectivity diagram of American Literary Non-fictionists but after I'd finished I realised it's not entirely American, it's not entirely non-fictionists. It's not entirely comedy and not entirely literary. After showing it to a friend though, he immediately suggested 'The New Illuminati' or possibly the Literary Illuminati. Maybe just the Illiternati. Any way round you have it, John Hodgman appears to be as some kind of Literpope in the middle of a literspiracy.

From what I can figure, I need to write some world economics exposé with Planet Money, discuss the software I used to analyse the markets with This Week in Tech and appear onstage at The Moth to tell the audience how the experience changed my life then I can join the dots on the diagram and reveal the secret Iliternati symbol. I think it'll be somewhere between the CND logo and a hyperbagel.