How did Rumpus contributor and noted word lover Michele Filgate become that notorious enemy of teachers, librarians, and all right-minded free-thinkers: a book burner?
Well, you’ll have to read her whole explanation.
But to give you a hint, it involves the following passage:
Is this all NYC is? I wondered frantically. Are all of us just food for the bed bugs? I pictured a post-apocalyptic city where the bloodsuckers overthrew the humans, lording over them in their vampiric glory.
