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Dwayne Betts on Reading, Prison, and the Million Book Project

发表于 2020-10-19 dwayne betts reading

Author, lawyer, and poet Dwayne Betts talks about his time in prison and the power of reading with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Betts is the founder of the Milli…

Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering

发表于 2022-05-03 auschwitz suffering ellison

In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it would make the…

Dwayne Betts on Beauty, Prison, and Redaction

发表于 2023-01-24 advocate redaction dwayne

Dwayne Betts was a 16-year-old in solitary confinement when a fellow inmate slid a book of poetry under his cell door. What happened next is an astounding story…

Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts)

发表于 2024-06-04 carjacking injustice birmingham

When poet, lawyer, and MacArthur Fellow Dwayne Betts was imprisoned for nine years at the age of 16 for carjacking, he only wept twice. One of those times was w…

Dwayne Betts on the Iliad

发表于 2026-07-21 roberts econtalk achilles

What happens when a poet who survived prison sits down with the world's oldest war story--and reads it in three sleepless, wandering days? In this second episod…