My Bad: The Apology Anthology

Updated to include new apologies: “[A] densely packed grab bag…an invaluable history lesson, reassuring in its lest-we-forgetness, riveting in its revelations.”—Entertainment Weekly

With an additional 200 mind-boggling miscues and mealy-mouthed mea culpas, My Bad celebrates the best of this year’s most exquisitely squirm-inducing pleas for forgiveness, from a variety of famous flubbers—Donald Rumsfield to Don Imus, Mel Gibson to Michael Richards—that proves public apologies are as American as pleading the Fifth.

Paul Slansky is the author of The Clothes Have No Emperor and The George W. Bush Quiz Book. His work is frequently featured in the New Yorker. He lives in Los Angeles. Arleen Sorkin is a film and television writer, producer, and actress.