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Bev Stoll ran the office of renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky at MIT for nearly two and a half decades. This is her account of those years, as she worked alongside a man whom the New York Times described as “perhaps the most important thinker alive today.” Through these pages we see a constant stream of diverse visitors: historian Howard Zinn, activists Alex Carey, Peggy Duff, and Dory Ladner, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, actors Catherine Keener and Wallace Shawn, writer Norman Mailer, groups of 14-year-old schoolchildren, and the world's leading linguists. They all appear in these stories. Many visitors do not care about their allotted time, just as Chomsky spares no effort in giving it. Getting them out of the library in the middle of their conversation is one of Biff's most difficult tasks. Her other duties include organizing lectures to large crowds around the world, banishing unscrupulous journalists, preventing piles of paper and crumbling books from engulfing her boss, and running his printer when deemed "broken" by a mind less preoccupied with mundane technology than with the realms of academia and activism.