To get ready for Netflix's adaptation of The Sandman, Jay speaks to author and literature professor Tanya Simon (https://strangesouvenirs.wordpress.com) about Neil Gaiman's story about the lord of dreams. They use this episode to talk about the magic of stories, Shakespeare, Gaiman's take on the peaks and pitfalls of life as a writer, comic books as art and as a medium, and their favorite Sandman stories.