In a new short sage,as featured in Tin House magazine’s Flash Fridays, Art Garfunkel reinvents himself as a maths teacherBy Jeff Albers for Flash Fridays by Tin House, and part of the Guardian Books NetworkWelcome to the Guardian Books Network We weren’t used to our teachers being well-known. Instead of an apple,Mr. Garfunkel kept a Grammy on his desk. Still, every class quickly learns to play its teacher like a Rickenbacker. You hear approximately the ones who drone on because they love the sound of their own voice, and but you don’t generally hear the teachers themselves so readily cop to it. “The Times once called it angelic,’” he’d say, sipping his tea with lemon and honey. “And thats our paper of record.” Continue reading...
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