Grant Lindsley’s not only the bestselling author of Mediocre Monk: A Stumbling Search for Answers in a Forest Monastery—he's also a two-time Team USA ultimate frisbee gold medalist, according to his LinkedIn profile. Not bad for a Brooklyn dude who was once "majorly interested in himself and minorly interested in himself on drugs." In Mediocre Monk, Lindsley describes his unorthodox path to spiritual growth, which kicks into gear when he dips out on his corporate gig and gets hairy when he retreats into a cave in Thailand to train as a monk. As it turns out, finding solace and humility is a little more complicated than that. Lindsley will chat about it with Scott Korb, recipient of a 2021 Oregon Literary Fellowship and director of the MFA in writing at Pacific University.