Flash fiction: Simon and Mr Garfunkel

In a new short story, as featured in Tin House magazine’s Flash Fridays, Art Garfunkel reinvents himself as a maths teacher

By Jeff Albers for Flash Fridays by Tin House, part of the Guardian Books Network

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We weren’t used to our teachers being famous. Instead of an apple, Mr. Garfunkel kept a Grammy on his desk.

Still, every class quickly learns to play its teacher like a Rickenbacker. You hear about the ones who drone on because they love the sound of their own voice, but you don’t usually hear the teachers themselves so readily cop to it. “The Times once called it ‘angelic,’” he’d say, sipping his tea with lemon and honey. “And that’s our paper of record.”

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