I am not a young a adult, but that’s totally irrelevant. Those of you who know me are already aware of that, and if you post my real age, the angels will weep for you, and I will delete it, anyway, so why bother?

Young adult novels and comic books were not permitted in my house when I was a kid, as they were not considered real literature. When I shared this information with the Late, Great, Donald Barthelme, he said to me “And see what you became?”

This, by the way, is a pretty good photo of him.