Photo credit: Erin Flegg, https://www.erinfleggphotography.com/ Brace yourself for the lively energy of an interviewer who has been pandemic-isolated for too long and an interviewee who really just wants to talk about reality television. I sat down with author and person-I-want-to-trick-into-being-my-IRL-friend andrea bennett to talk about their new book, Like a Boy but Not a Boy, out now with Arsenal Pulp Press. We also talked about mental health in a pandemic, Great British Bake Off, patterns of abuse and harm in CanLit, boomer men’s bad opinions about parenting and libraries, and why we’re pretty comfortable with TikTok youths roasting the heck out of millennials. Here are some links! You can, and should, buy andrea’s book here. If you’d like to read excerpts in The Walrus, Xtra, and Chatelaine, and you can hear me read an excerpt from my favourite essay on this podcast. To prove that I do like puppies, here’s a video of some puppies. andrea recommended Sarah Liss’s article, “Pandemic parenting in a two-mom family means twice the maternal guilt”Here’s a little context on the Great British Bake Off babka drama If you are unfamiliar with the larger context of Josep