“Kerman, what do you think about being on the snow crew this winter, drive one of the plows? Pays forty cents an hour!”
Thinking of all the thousands of people out clearing snow up and down the East Coast this week, I wanted to share an “outtake” from my memoir Orange Is the New [...]

An interview with Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year Inside a Women’s Prison

In her just-released memoir, Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside,
Bridget Kinsella, an editor at Publishers Weekly for 14 years, has written a story fueled in part by literary love. After meeting through a now-defunct writing program at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison, Kinsella began a correspondence with, and eventually visited, Rory Mehan, [...]