His inability to recognize critical genius aside, City Paper Arts Editor Mark Athitakis is one smart guy. Here’s an interview he did with the blog Tales From the Reading Room, in which he discusses blogs, how sweaty men brought him to journalism, and his bizarre, maybe even personal, hatred of Dave Eggers.

(Actually, his interview is completely safe for work. I’m just trying to up our page views. It’s part of my job.)

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