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by Joe Jarvis via The Daily Bell
Well I’ll be buttered and rolled in cracker crumbs!
Ben Bartee, a regular contributor to The Daily Bell, asked if I was interested in reading a book he wrote which he described as his “memoir.”
I admit I was skeptical, because one, the word memoir sounded boring, and two, that a 30-something should have a memoir seemed premature to me.
But as soon as I started reading, Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile, I was hooked.
He drew me in with behind-the-scenes experiences, events, and people that I have never known personally, but I knew their type existed somewhere. It made me feel like I was being let in on a secret, or given expert observations from an anthropologist studying neo-Nazis, obese intrusive stepmothers, mooching ex-cons, and even a voyeuristic midget…