The Coolest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes

This is a short, quick, and easy read.

Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK (humor is hard!), but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.

Anecdotes are retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism.

Most of these anecdotes are meant to be funny, but some are meant to be thought-provoking.

This book contains 250 anecdotes, including this one:

• David Foster Wallace's mother was an English teacher at a community college. She had an interesting way of teach...