A Rumpus of Wild Things: Interviewing Bruce Handy About His Latest

A couple months ago I made mention of the fact that Bruce Handy, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, had written a book called Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult. Naturally I was curious, and not just because his book shared a title with my own. I approached it with some trepidation but a recent review in The New York Times and my own perusal of its pages was enough to convince me that the man wasn’t some fly-by-night appreciator of the form. Clearly he had gi...