The memoir of a former Boston prison librarian has revealed some of the literary preferences of American inmates. And according to Avi Steinberg, aka “Bookie” to the inmates of Suffolk County House of Correction, popular requests are The Diary of Anne Frank, Robert Greene’s Machiavellian self-help manual The 48 Laws of Power, and anything by Sylvia Plath.
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Memoir reveals prisoners’ book preferences
This sounds like an interesting book. I haven’t read it, but Erwin James is quoted in the piece, and his first prison memoir, A Life Inside, is wonderful.
