Mr. Carter was arrested after the police found a backpack they said belonged to him at the scene of an attempted library break-in earlier this month.
Someone could be writing a literary heist story, in which demented book nerds attempt a library break-in, sometime over the next 100 years, to read the words of their idols.
Before Williams could continue with the question, the audience at the Reagan Library broke into raucous cheers, perhaps the loudest ovation of the night.
But when talks over a labor pact at the library broke down in April, the 14 member unions decided to pressure Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who is also the chief fund-raiser for the library foundation.
The invited audience, made up of supporters of the candidates and patrons of the library, broke out into applause when Mr. Williams noted again that 234 people had been executed.
With its tender evocation of a subtle, rarely illuminated world, its rich characterisation and its simple prose, "The Swimming Pool Library" broke down the walls that had kept gay writing for so long in a ghetto.
The blaze, which destroyed about 10% of the building, including the Mackintosh library, broke out on Friday 23 May.
We were in there until about 6 PM when Andy Parks, who was ordered by the gunman to get us out of the library, broke through the emergency exit and ordered us to follow him upstairs to where the gunman was along with a large bunch of students.
One injustice was that many libraries were initially segregated and some towns received grants for racially separate Black libraries but several Carnegie libraries broke those barriers too.
The library's break with its long tradition of choosing only dead authors for its series of definitive collections ushered Miss Welty into a pantheon that includes Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner.
(Remember Abraham Abdallah, the Brooklyn man arrested last March for using a computer at his local library to break into the bank accounts of celebrities like Oprah Winfrey? That's a score!) Unfortunately, Hollywood has so far bungled its approach to cybercrime.
