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A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
Thomas Cahill’s moving new book—A Saint on Death Row—about Death Row in Texas exposes the horror of executions—and the power of forgiveness. Watch a 7-minute video featuring interview footage with Dominique Green, as well as commentary from Thomas Cahill about Dominque’s case and the death penalty in the United States. View a list of related articles, books, and videos at thomascahill.com. Read reviews at DailyBeast.com, Paste Magazine, DeathPena…
Read more ›Death Row inmate from ANATOMY OF INJUSTICE is freed after 30 years
…f the book. “This is a lucid, page-turning account of the trials and death row appeals of Edward Lee Elmore, a quiet and mentally challenged African-American man accused of the brutal murder of an elderly white woman in South Carolina in 1982, and the remarkably dedicated legal team that fought for him to have fair representation in court after three separate, grossly mismanaged jury trials. “Led by Diana Holt, a lawyer whose own turbulent youth c…
Read more ›Anatomy of Injustice by Ray Bonner
…ously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was fou…
Read more ›The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart by Deborah Digges
…you in, flush riot of needles light burst, the white pine / grown through sycamore”). Throughout, touching all subjects, either implicitly or explicitly, is the call to poetry itself. The final work from one of our finest poets, The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart is a uniquely intimate collection, a sustaining pleasure that will stand to remind us of Digges’s gift in decades to come. Read the title poem in The New Yorker The poet Debora…
Read more ›Cooking from the Knopf Cookbooks: Strawberry Shortcake
…narrator, considering my options in the rain. This is our new friend from Sycamore Farms. Mary is making this look like a stick-up, but we obtained the quart of strawberries through wholly legal means. Back in Brooklyn to mix the dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar) for the biscuits. We used Edna Lewis’s recipe for warm tender cakes. Amy handily (ho ho) mixes in the wet ingredients (unsalted butter, heavy cream). Wo…
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‘Tightrope’ by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
…alized world, but in the United States it has dropped for three years in a row — for the first time in a century. As we’ll see, American kids today are 55 percent more likely to die by the age of nineteen than children in the other rich countries that are members of the OECD, the club of industrialized nations. America now lags behind its peer countries in health care and high-school graduation rates while suffering greater violence, poverty and a…
Read more ›P.D. James Talks Death Comes to Pemberley on BBC Radio
…P.D. James recently sat down with Mark Lawson of BBC’s Front Row to talk about Death Comes to Pemberly, her imaginative follow-up to Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. “I wanted to see if I could combine my two enthusiasms: for writing detective fiction, and for the novels of Jane Austen,” James says. “It was great fun to write something so very different.” Listen to the entire interview on BBC’s website….
Read more ›Read an Exclusive Excerpt from Ford County at The Daily Beast
…d Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who’s been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit. Visit The Daily Beast to read the story. More about Ford County can be found at jgrisham.com….
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