Orange in the New Black
I read Orange is the New Black yesterday. It was entirely chance, as every so often I download all the books off the New York Times Bestsellers List, and this happened to be on it.
The book is the memoir of one Piper Kerman, a well-educated white woman who got sent to jail for 15 months. Rightly so, one might think, given she was involved in a drug trafficking ring years earlier. Throughout the book, she paints a grim picture of prison and how useless the institutional system is, at one stage highlighting out how much better restorative justice would be. But mostly this is just a story of the people she met there, and how she survived. It was pretty interesting read overall.
Now now I find that the book is being turned into a TV series. And the best thing about it? It stars Kate Mulgrew as Red, a vindictive prison cook. The interview below cracks me up - all I can hear is Captain Janeway. I can't wait to see it.
The book is the memoir of one Piper Kerman, a well-educated white woman who got sent to jail for 15 months. Rightly so, one might think, given she was involved in a drug trafficking ring years earlier. Throughout the book, she paints a grim picture of prison and how useless the institutional system is, at one stage highlighting out how much better restorative justice would be. But mostly this is just a story of the people she met there, and how she survived. It was pretty interesting read overall.
Now now I find that the book is being turned into a TV series. And the best thing about it? It stars Kate Mulgrew as Red, a vindictive prison cook. The interview below cracks me up - all I can hear is Captain Janeway. I can't wait to see it.
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