Phil Christman at The Hedgehog Review:
John J. Lennon is, at the moment, probably this country’s foremost imprisoned journalist. This title won’t be taken from him any time soon, not because there aren’t many talented and inquisitive people in prison but because the barriers to entry are so nearly impassible. A journalist’s life is a daunting prospect these days even to a person with freedom of movement, a real computer, the ability to make phone calls in private. Lennon’s new book, The Tragedy of True Crime, concludes with an author’s note that describes the makeshifts that he and his supporters have had to adopt so he can fulfill the most basic parts of an author’s job:
Receiving a 100,000-word work-in-progress manuscript in prison is harder than you may think, especially when that prison system is dealing with a K2 crisis. The drug looks like a regular piece of paper to the unknowing eye, but one sheet sprayed with K2 chemicals is worth about $1000 in prison.…
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