I am going to recommend a particular podcast episode: Alexander Theroux's interview in The Marketplace of Ideas, from a few years back. He manages to compare himself to Dickens, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Nabokov and many others in forty short minutes, and propounds eloquently first on the stupidity of critics, before widening his aim to take in all humanity. Not only does he convey how much more intelligent he is than most people, and better read, but he also makes sure to explain how he is also more generous and godly. I came away from this interview liking the guy a lot.