Novelist Tom Perrotta made his reputation through attention to craft, with novels including Election, Little Children, and The Abstinence Teacher. John Hodgman took a more improbable route to fame: by depicting a PC in Apple's "Get A Mac" ads, providing commentary as a "resident expert" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and writing the books The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require. At Boston Book Festival 2009, Tom interviewed the man whose irresistible humor begat Hodgmania.