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On about books, we delve into the latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books, the latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspans book tv. Welcome to the about books podcast and program. Joining us in just a few minutes is regional dwayne bett, hes an author and founder of an organization that provides books for incarcera...

Our class is about a drama class taught in prison and about the teaching and learning about the prison and he people who have to live in it and around it and who are trying to survive its violence and trauma and play cage was begun there with the full participation of the class in realize in a series of public performances. We hear the voices of the students read over. They work to find their own stories and have the courage to dramatize them. This book is full of hard stories. It dares every co...

On about books, we delve into the latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books, the latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspans book tv. Welcome to the about books podcast and program. Joining us in just a few minutes is regional dwayne bett, hes an author and founder of an organization that provides books for incarcera...

For incarcerated people. But first, heres a look at one social media phenomenon taking the Publishing Industry by storm. Its called book talk. Its where users of the social media site tiktok record themselves reviewing, reacting to or even acting out books, and then they post the videos using the booktok. Book tok began during the pandemic. Today more than 11 million book tok videos exist with over 60 billion, with a b, views. Heres just one recent example. Telling you if its worth the hype. Yes...

At 16 he was imprisoned for a carjacking. With time on his hands, he began writing. Now an accomplished poet, playwright, attorney and MacArthur Fellow, Dwayne Betts has also founded a non-profit that provides libraries to inmates.

On the show, Chris Hedges discusses prison with the poet, writer and attorney, Reginald Dwayne Betts

A much-honored poet and respected lawyer with a degree from Yale Law School, Reginald Dwayne Betts has been trying to redefine his life away from the one teenage act that reverberates through his thoughts and dreams. His third poetry collection, "Felon," is now in print.