When you completely bomb your dinner with a Nobel Laureate

The boiling tension behind the forced smiles, and what I learned after meeting an actual literary god

I’m the one on the far right. The Nobel Laureate is that tall non-asian man.

For most people, they’d expect meeting a Nobel Laureate in-person to be a humbling opportunity of a lifetime. And while that should be the case, my own personal experience was that of great…