The audience who wants to live through the pandemic again is probably not a large one, but the audience who wants to live through the pandemic as experienced by the hero (and his wife, Peaches) of Christopher Buckley’s latest book deserves to be huge. Has Anyone Seen My Toes? is Buckley at his madcap best, deserving of a place on your bookshelf right next to P. G. Wodehouse. Buckley, of course, would laugh at that notion, but self-effacement is very much part of his charm.
JIM KELLY: Aside from writing Has Anyone Seen My Toes?, how and where did you ride out the pandemic? I assume you did not become grossly obese like the lead character in your novel.