Oct. 13: Reading: Jennifer Gonnerman "Life on the Outside"

Oct. 13th, 7PM

Reading: Jennifer Gonnerman, Life on the Outside
A Benefit For Books Through Bars
$5 - $10 Suggested

Bluestockings
172 Allen Street (bt Stanton and Rivington)
212.777.6028

For two and a half years, journalist Jennifer Gonnerman shadowed recently released prisoner Elaine Bartlett, providing an intimate glimpse into the difficulties of reassimilating into a society ill-prepared and generally unwilling to assist ex-convicts. Life on the Outside was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and is credited with helping reform New York's Rockefeller drug laws.

Gonnerman reports on criminal justice issues for the Village Voice.