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11. Keri Blakinger Kurt Vonnegut Radio with Gabe Hudson
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Keri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink and an award-winning journalist at The Marshall Project. As a student at Cornell University in 2010, Keri was arrested in Ithaca for possession of heroin. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, after which she became an award-winning journalist who covers death row in the Texas prison system. Keri describes what it felt like to see her book on the shelf at The Harvard Coop Bookstore, where as an unhoused person she used to steal books in order to fund her heroin addiction.
Visit Keri Blakinger's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram
But Keri's memoir Corrections in Ink
Watch Keri on YouTube
Read Keri in New York Times
Read Keri in Los Angeles Times
More episode resources and links
Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com
Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram
Other episodes you may enjoy:
Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist)
Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker)
Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner)
Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid)
About the Host:
Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney’s for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.
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Keri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink and an award-winning journalist at The Marshall Project. As a student at Cornell University in 2010, Keri was arrested in Ithaca for possession of heroin. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, after which she became an award-winning journalist who covers death row in the Texas prison system. Keri describes what it felt like to see her book on the shelf at The Harvard Coop Bookstore, where as an unhoused person she used to steal books in order to fund her heroin addiction.
Visit Keri Blakinger's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram
But Keri's memoir Corrections in Ink
Watch Keri on YouTube
Read Keri in New York Times
Read Keri in Los Angeles Times
More episode resources and links
Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com
Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram
Other episodes you may enjoy:
Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist)
Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker)
Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner)
Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid)
About the Host:
Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney’s for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.
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