The more-than-book-famous John Hodgman and his memoir 'Vacationland'
"I only ever aspired to be book-famous. Once I got a little bit above book-famous and got to almost semi-famous famous, the idea that I would fall back to book-famous was intolerable," says John Hodgman with his trademark dry hyperbole. Then he pauses. "But in fact, that's really where I belong."
Before the comedian became a know-nothing know-it-all commentator on "The Daily Show," before he declared "I'm a PC" in Apple's television ads, Hodgman actually worked in publishing. He was a literary agent.
"Writing is really hard. It's challenging and lonely. The reason I was a literary agent instead of a writer was that it was social, and less work," he says with a smile.
He's speaking with me via Skype from his home office in Brooklyn days before the launch
