Random Encounter

Today I feel like telling a little story about how I met one of my favorite authors.  While working as a library assistant in the ninth grade (sometime back in the 1980′s), the librarian had a cache of "banned books" that had been snatched from students. These books were randomly kept behind the checkout desk in a little nook. Mrs. V, the librarian, knew they were there and she did nothing to get rid of them, figuring those of us who worked in the library would run off with them anyway (I...