Saturday, October 30, 2010

What Prisoners are Reading

Memoir reveals prisoners' book preferences | Books | guardian.co.uk: "The memoir of a former Boston prison librarian has revealed some of the literary preferences of American inmates. And according to Avi Steinberg, aka 'Bookie' to the inmates of Suffolk County House of Correction, popular requests are The Diary of Anne Frank, Robert Greene's Machiavellian self-help manual The 48 Laws of Power, and anything by Sylvia Plath."

2 comments:

RJR said...

. . . and The Gunsmith.

RJR

Unknown said...

Sure enough!