Coolest People in Books : David Bruce : 9798215664933 : 08 Sep 2022 : 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 teaching David and Amy, his sister, proper grammar. If either of them made an error in usage during conversation at the supper table, she would pretend to have a coughing fit until the child acknowledged his or her error and corrected it. - Philip Pullman, author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, is a wonderful storyteller-not just when he writes his novels, but also when he tells out loud the stories of classic literatur