• A Malkuth of Me,  books,  the writing life

    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.…