VOTM: What is your most unusual experience at a reading?
KIEREN VAN DEN BLINK: A man came to read at our church when I was little. He was sharing a story from a book he was working on about being the president of the American University in Beirut. My mom looked at the man and then at his name in the program. Then her mouth dropped. It turned out he was my mom's childhood friend from Lebanon. They'd grown up next door -- he'd stayed in Lebanon and she'd moved to the States when she was nine. They met again forty years later at a reading in New Jersey in our little Presbyterian Church.
