Join the boys in their discursive yet eminently lucid discussion of Pierre Bayard's 2007 classic "How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read" and their attempts to answer several intractable dilemmas like: Should you pretend to have read Foucault to seduce ethereal bisexuals? Why is there a dearth of whimsy in modern academic publishing? Was Franco Moretti unfairly MeToo'd? All this and more.

Music is John Hiatt's "Book Lovers"