num_pages: 352
description: Originally published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and other periodicals, this collection of twenty outstanding essays features the author's profiles of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the Rolling Stones, and Paul Simon, as well as his fascinating study of a New York artist who invites people to call and leave an apology on his answering machine.
language: English
title: Mr. Apology and Other Essays
titlecomplete: Mr. Apology and Other Essays
ratings_count: 15
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay 
publisher: Houghton Mifflin