Sunday, July 19, 2009

My Faves for Sunday, July 19, 2009

When Frank McCourt was in a high school basement room in Durham signing a mountain of books (I was helping carry them) before his reading for the Regulator, the pompous principal walked in and grandly introduced himself, then started introducing the other school administrators. After a couple minutes McCourt cut him off, saying "in the time I've been listening to you I could have signed fifty books."

[tags: news, books]

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