Thursday, March 5, 2020

Mind of Winter

Donating a copy of Auggie's Revenge to the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library reminded me of a Penn undergrad finding Fight for Your Long Day and reading from it at a university event. It was a thrill to find a video of his reading early in my life as a "published author."
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