Article: SUNDAY LUNCH WITH...Jayson Blair 'It's a tour of contrition. It's really not so much about selling books as apologizing.'

'A copy of the book is going for $75 on eBay," says Jayson Blair, reading from his BlackBerry pager as he sits down at our table at Smith & Wollensky. "Signed."

The disgraced former New York Times reporter shakes his head and laughs a little in disbelief: This is what it is to be a celebrity, even one of the more-infamous-than-famous sort. "Some crazy person," he says, speculating on who would be bidding on it. "It's true, though, you can find people to buy anything. I know someone who sold a $57 piece of yarn on eBay."

"Can you see who it is?" I ask.

"I can't tell," he says, checking the device's small screen.

Then he offers to forward the message to me so I can, um, double- check it for ...

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