Confirming the Academic Stereotype

LA Times Festival of BooksIf it hadn’t happened to me, I don’t think I would have believed it.  It seemed like a caricature that SNL or even Rush Limbaugh might invent.  It was almost funny at the time, but upon further reflection isn’t funny in the least.  It’s pretty scary actually.

I attended the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books once again over the week-end. As always, it was engaging and interesting.  I learned some more about ideas and authors I wanted to learn more about and discovered some new ones too.  But one bizarre experience (sadly) takes the cake.

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