Over in the New York Times, we’re offered a retrospective of author Frank McCourt’s (Angela’s Ashes) years as a teacher at Stuyvesant High School:

Long before Mr. McCourt became a literary figure, he was somebody’s high school English teacher. In his new memoir, Teacher Man, published by Scribner, Mr. McCourt recalls the successes (asserting control by eating a bologna sandwich hurled across the classroom, or introducing students to literary criticism through nursery rhymes) and travails (patronizing supervisors, grading fatigue and parent-teacher conferences) of three decades in the city’s public schools.

And on Thursday, December 15, Mr. McCourt will be stopping by to give us a reading of Teacher Man. His work is meant to be heard.