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A riveting profile of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading books with criminals in a maximum-security men's prison outside Baltimore and what she discovered from them - Orange Is the New Dark satisfies Reading Lolita in Tehran. On sabbatical from educating books to undergraduates, and wanting to educate another kind of learner, Mikita Brottman begins a book membership with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional Establishment in Maryland. She assigns them 10 dark, challenging classics, including Conrad's Heart and soul of Darkness, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Poe's account "The Black Cat", and Nabokov's Lolita - catalogs that don't flinch from causing the isolation of the individual struggle, the pain of conflict, and the price tag on transgression. Although Brottman is already acquainted with these works, the convicts open them up in completely new ways. Their discussions may "only" be about books, but also for the prisoners, everything is at stake. Slowly and gradually the inmates start about their lives and people, their disastrous alternatives, their guilt and reduction. Brottman also discovers that life in prison, while monotonous, is never without incident. The book membership members struggle with their assigned reading through solitary confinement; on lockdown; in between stock shifts; in a healthcare facility; and in the middle of the chaos of blasting televisions, incessant chatter, and the regular banging of metal entrance doors. Though The Maximum Security Publication Team never loses perception of the moral issues raised in the specific reading, it won't back away from the unforeseen insights proposed by the company of these intricate, difficult men. It is a convincing, thoughtful evaluation of books - and prison life - like little or nothing you've ever listened to before.

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