Speaking Up and Unreliable Vocal Chords: A Talk With Maulik Pancholy About NIKHIL OUT LOUD

Here’s how the typical celebrity writes a children’s book for kids:

They don’t. They just don’t. They hire someone to do it for them. Or, if they’re feeling spunky, they’ll whip up a 32-page picture book in 20 minutes and reap the subsequent rewards.

I am not interested in those people. Far more interesting is the celebrity that thinks to themselves, “I’d like to write something for kids that might actually be pretty good and is something that could help them out a lot with some of the is...